small update

[Adam Lindsay]

Hi James,

I'd be quite keen on a "raw XML" import/export, where element names are
outliner entries, attributes are columns, and text content is a note.
Import is a bit more important here, but round-tripping could be a real boon.

I did something similar with XSLT and an old OO plist file format.
Why? I see it as a useful springboard into other display options
(especially OmniGraffle!), and it could be a handy quick-and-dirty XML
editor. 

cheers!
adam

(If you didn't do this yourselves but opened the plugin format, I'd
probably try to code it myself.)

James Moore said this at Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:59:53 -0700:

>This list has seemed pretty dead lately so I thought I just poke it to 
>make sure.
>
>We're hard at work on Outliner 3 still. Things are shaping up pretty 
>nicely.
>
>One thing that I'm interested in finding out is what file formats are 
>folks interested in exporting to?
>
>The reason I ask is that Outliner 3 is going to allow you to pretty 
>easily create import and export plugins. I'd like to have a set of 
>extra plugins available for download when we ship. I'm currently 
>working on a new LaTeX export plugin. Some of the other formats we're 
>working on are Excel (via HTML) and Apple Help. MS Word is going to be 
>rolled in this time around.
>
>Thanks!
>
>-James
>
>Technical Support Engineer
>The Omni Group
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