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Check out KOZOPMLBROWSER…this is someones OPML Reader…NOTE: you can’t log in and make your own.

What they have done is made a OPML Directory…but instead of a boring outline look it seems more like a reader.
The contents is shown at the home level, or it is organised in folders…the contents can be just text, web links, RSS feeds (this launches a mini RSS Reader), or OPML URL’s.

That’s right, this massive OPML has OPML’s within it (again these can be organised in folders, contain just text, links, feeds or have OPML’s)…this is called OPML inclusion
…you could see this going on and on (My OPML points to another OPML which already points to an OPML, etc…)

So this Root OPML Directory is made up of text, links, feeds, and OPML’s…anytime the Root OPML is updated (where ever it lives, in an OPML editor somewhere) the additions are reflected in this version.

Also since this Root OPML has OPML’s within it, when ever these OPML’s are modified by their owners, the changes are automatically reflected.

In my previous post I referred to a blog that had it’s own OPML and how you could view it in an OPML Box on your blog sidebar. To see what it looks like in this tool, click on the OPML Geeks folder and double click on Cori Schlegel’s blog in OPML, this will list the posts from this blog organised in folders.

Imagine if you could make this browser for your blog sidebar…that would be cool…not only would I list an OPML of my blogroll, but I could list all my other OPML’s, and point to other people’s hosted OPML’s.
All I’d have to do is make a massive Root OPML, within this I could point to all my other OPML’s, and my friends OPML’s
…I’m not just limited to one OPML because now I can point to other OPML’s from within mine…this makes it an OPML Directory.

I like the idea instead of making a massive OPML from scratch that you can make heaps of smaller OPML’s then collate them all in a master or root OPML.

[ADDED: Also see Kosso’s OPML Manager.
Here you can view a selection of OPML’s or enter your own OPML URL (soon it will accept OPML local files).
Once loaded you can modify any of these OPML’s to make a new one…make new folders, text, HTML links, feeds, OPML links (inclusion).

So I guess you can browse an OPML URL and edit an OPML, it just won’t host it for you, it will save as code, so you will have to save this locally then host it in a URL

…it seems user accounts are coming soon, so maybe hosting is around the corner, or at least a workbench.

It’s basically the same as OPML Manager, but doesn’t have a public viewable outline tree page, or host the OPML URL…but it does have OPML inclusion which I haven’t seen yet.

The other thing with OPML Manager is that every time you want to make a new OPML you have to make a new user account, I’d like to be able to make many OPML’s within the one account.

Other editors I haven’t checked out:

OPML editor (desktop)
WOW OPML Browser (desktop)
OPML Workstation (web-based…yeah!)]

…continue.