[Playlist] anyone noticed this?

[Alf Eaton]

On 24 Jun 2005, at 22:39, Bjorn Wijers wrote:

> Dave Winer(?) et al is working on OPML aka Outline Processor Markup  
> Language which includes according to the site (http://www.opml.org/)
>
> ' This document describes a format for storing outlines in XML 1.0  
> called Outline Processor Markup Language or OPML. For the purposes  
> of this document, an outline is a tree, where each node contains a  
> set of named attributes with string values.'
>
> 'Outlines can be used for specifications, legal briefs, product  
> plans, presentations, screenplays, directories, diaries, discussion  
> groups, chat systems and stories. Outliners are programs that allow  
> you to read, edit and reorganize outlines. Examples of OPML  
> documents: **play list**, specification, presentation.'
>
> (** are mine to catch attention..)
>
> http://static.userland.com/gems/radiodiscuss/playlist.opml
>

See also http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/2005/06/22#a634

DW: "The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had seen, only  
peripherally -- that there were applications of RSS that aren't about  
news. Like Audible's NY Times Best Seller list, or an iTunes music  
playlist, or lists of Sharepoint documents, or browser bookmarks.  
Lists are all over the place, and people are starting to move them  
around via RSS [?], and they are not the usual kind of data that has  
been carried by RSS in the past."

alf.