Comments on: Use Atom for a Universal Blog Transfer Protocol

By: Mark Paschal

Mark Paschal — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I wrote a script to export an MT weblog to an Atom feed, but the new reality of web hosting servers killing "runaway" processes makes it a terrible pain for large archives. It has to export X entries, then have the browser make a new request to push the next X. The script exports in text chunks, so that's okay, but I couldn't figure how to parse an XML document in parts similarly.

I was planning to use that to transport my weblog from MT 2 to MT 3, but I ended up writing the sqlite schema upgrade code instead.

By: rick

rick — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Yes! This is what I've been trying to say. Use RSS as a simple syndication feed, but Atom when you need a rich data model and API.

Having drop-dead-simple Atom import/export in MT (and all blogging tools) should reduce any fears of lock-in.

By: Mark Bernstein

Mark Bernstein — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Tinderbox will support the Atom API, once it's actually an API. There's still a lot of uncertainty what the real atom API will look like, either on paper or as implemented in deployed systems.

For now, Metaweblog and Blogger API should work with most of the tools you want to work with...

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Mark: Fair enough - I can respect you not wanting to track a moving target of an API. So far I like the direction it has been taking, though.

Oh, and thanks again for Tinderbox!

By: PapaScott

PapaScott — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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