Amphetathoughts #2 : It will be a cold day in Hell before it ships with XML::LibXML
but maybe, just maybe, it will someday ship using XML::SAX-iness for doing the heavy lifting.
Which is all really just another way of saying "Oh god, please make all this OPML stuff go away!"
OPML is fine for simple things but it just plain sucks rocks to read or write by hand and it uses
this weird-ass, easy-like-AppleScript, way of including and processing remote documents. It's not like
it would actually be hard to write a Perl thingy for munging "instant outlines" but why would I want
to when everything else has support for XInclude? And maybe I only want to include feeds on your blogroll
that start with the letter "B". At this point, two things should probably be pointed out: 1) I have
already written the code to process instant
OPML files and 2) I have even written an alternative to OPML which
suffers its very own set of problems and probably shouldn't be used for anything serious either.