Getting started with scripting

[Tom Wiebe]

On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 01:25  AM, Greg Titus wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> The following will do pretty much what you are asking for. I'm revisiting 
> the AppleScript support for the eventual OmniOutliner 2.0 right now, so 
> if you (or anyone else) has any suggestions for terminology, or things 
> you'd like to be able to do with Outliner and AppleScript, or even ideas 
> for scripts that you'd like to be included as examples (like this one - 
> this is a great idea!), I'd love to hear about them.
>
Greg,

If there isn't native support planned for it yet, it'd be nice to see some 
applescripts that allow you to import and export in OPML format, so I can 
use omnioutliner with my 3rd favorite OS X app, Radio. Radio is a desktop 
weblog builder and news aggregator but, most interestingly, seems to be a 
nearly complete version of the venerable Frontier scripting environment 
from days of yore.

OPML is an open format for storing outlines in XML, more info is at 
http://www.opml.org/spec. More info on Radio is at 
http://radio.userland.com/

It would seem that OmniOutliner already has some XML support built in, as 
it has automagically become the application that opens my OS X prefs files,
  so I'm guessing that native support for OPML might not be so hard to add.

BTW. I'm not quite sure why Outliner took over for opening prefs files, 
but I'm really glad it does!

Tom Wiebe

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