Broken handling of OPML files

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Sat, 01/16/2010 - 20:55
salimfadhley
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I've noticed that DoggCatcher has problems handling some perfectly valid OPML files such as this one:

http://blog.stodge.org/sal2.opml

It only sees the first level of the file, hence the two outermost outline nodes are visible, but it never bothers to parse the outline nodes containing links.

Also, while not strictly a bug the way that OPML files are handled is annoying. Why should the user be forced to download these to the SD card when surely they can be loaded from the web. Can we make it so that doggcatcher can use arbitrary OPML urls as a source of links, much in the same way that the Nokia podcasting application can do.

Thanks

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Sat, 01/16/2010 - 21:57
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eric
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OPML Import

DC only supports one level of OPML depth at the moment. I have an existing feature request to add support for this - http://mantis.snoggdoggler.com/view.php?id=243

OPML over the web - that's a good point. It actually how some other parts of DC are working under the covers so it wouldn't be too big of a deal to add. I created an issue for this - http://mantis.snoggdoggler.com/view.php?id=376

Thanks for the feedback.

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