Open Source OPML Class for Cocoa

[Zac Belado]

>I'll quibble with this a little.  First off, who says it must be hard 
>coded?  Cocoa makes it pretty darn easy to do these sorts of things 
>as plug-ins.  A good plug-in architecture prevents the problems 
>you're complaining about with code bloat.

If it is code added to the app then how isn't it "bloat"?

>And feature priority should be based on what the users *need*.  You 
>expect people to reverse engineer Word's format to get their stuff 
>done?  

The Word files I have all appear to be binary (even though I thought that Office was going to some sort of XML format...maybe that is Office 2002?) so I would not expect anyone to have to write a script for Word files. That would be quite painful.

Word is scriptable on the Mac though so a script to create a Word file would really only have to traverse the outline, create some paragraphs and assign some of the default styles to the text. Not a dead-simple task but certainly much simpler than writing out binary files in AppleScript.

This is the approach I was using in my Powerpoint script.