By Dave Winer on Monday, July 05, 2010 at 9:31 AM.
Just did a major shakeup on the back-end.
Now when I save a post it's rebuilding the OPML source before it saves it. This puts it through a cleanup step before other apps could depend on it. It also might break any apps that have been written that depend on it being built a certain way.
Well as McNulty and Bunk said when they examined the crime scene: Fuck. Fuck me. Fuck fuck fuck. It worked the first time. Yaha. Something must have broke.
I suppose this is a bit of a warning. Use a real XML parser to handle my XML, not string processing. I play by XML rules, which means order of attributes isn't important.
I probably should write a simple bookmarklet that depends on OPML "auto-discovery" so I can easily tell when I've broken something.
Anyway, if you want to see where I'm headed with all this, watch the To-Do list on the Changes page. ">