An experimental OPML+RSS archive for C&C
Over the last couple of days I've hacked together experimental support for OPML+RSS archives in Squib as I described a couple of days ago. You can grab my entire archive from here either directly or as a .tar.gz archive.
The structure of the archive looks like this:
The weblog.opml file is an outline that contains the date-based structure of Curiouser and Curiouser. There is a branch for each year, and each month of each year. At the leaves are pointers to daily RSS files and the ID & title of entries.
It occurred to me that I could just put the entire entry data directly into the OPML file and cut out the RSS. However, with over 2,100 entries, I felt that would lead to a very big and unwieldy file. Being just a file of pointers means it can still be sensibly opened in an OPML editor.
Another reason for using RSS is to ensure that users of the archive can take advantage of all the software out there to parse RSS. Once you've figured out which days entries you want, you can hand the corresponding RSS file to a standard parser and get back the entries.
Update: I've added <link rel="archive" type="application/opml+xml" href=".../archive/data/weblog.opml" /> to my home page to allow archive auto-discovery. I did a minimum amount of research before doing this so please correct me if that's a gross misuse of a link tag or there is some established way of doing this already.