[wp-hackers] WordPress eXtended RSS DTD

Xavier Borderie xavier at borderie.net
Fri Jul 18 08:48:53 GMT 2008


> Otto is correct. WXR was designed for moving between or merging WordPress
> installs.

Yet Geoffrey is right too. The good thing with using XML is that it
helps portability, yet without a proper DTD, WXR is as useful to other
projects as a straight file-dump would be.

> That's not to say other blogging/CMS software couldn't use it to
> import rather than doing an import via the DB, but I don't believe that was
> it's initial purpose.

It would be nice to have that, getting adoption of the format
elsewhere would be very nice IMHO.

-- 
Xavier Borderie


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