Introduction

The goal of this project is to create a distributed list of items via OPML. This is my first experiment using Google Code / subversion and I am by know means an expert.

If you would like to join let me know at braddet@gmail.com

The inspiration for this project drives itself from visiting the ipodder.org site. Ipodder.org uses OPML as a distribution method for podcasts (ie: a distributed podcast directory)

When I first learned about this I was excited, because I had 2 ideas for a while that I was unsure how best to implement. This project is the accumulation of those goals

1) A common troubleshooting/faq system: This is represented by a series of "questions" choosen by the user. Each question narrows down the parameters the user is looking for until (hopefully eventually) they are able to resolve the problem.

2) A common bulletin board/forum system. Building upon my initial FAQ system. This would be very similar. A way to connect together various forum systems and blogs.

One main difference I have thought of that differs from the OPML specification is the use of raw "emails" listed in the OPML file ownerEmail tag. Instead my idea is to use an Open ID instead. The Open ID http://openid.net/ would map to an email address for sending request to add items to the faq / forum tree. In addition I wish to implement some sort of Capcha system [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha ] during a submission request to avoid SPAM.

In the end I would like various implementations in PHP, ASP (JSP?, others). In this way anyone can easily add the code to their website and take advantage of the system. The working example of this code can be found at http://www.bwebcentral.com/troubleshooter

..This page itself needs edited when I get the chance

Details

Before working on this project be sure to check out more info on OPML here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML

And checkout more info about using version control svn here

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html#svn.tour.importing

Code is currently in a 'trunk trunk' directory. I will fix this once I learn how.

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