Development ideas for OutlineBlogger Tool

Add other renderers

The renderer I am using in the current tool is a modified version of user.html.renderers.twoLevelOutline. There are a total of 19 outline renderers in the Radio UserLand root database. One way to allow other renderers to be used could be to add a preference setting to allow the user to select the renderer.

Add permalinks for each item

In the OPML Editor, most if not all of the items have a permalink at the end of each outline element posted. Currently, the OutlineBlogger Tool does not add any permalinks, but it could be added (don't have any ideas right now on how to do that).

Edit previously posted entries in the outliner

The current design is that the outline text is rendered in HTML and posted. The text is stored in Radio UserLand's content management system. To be able to edit previous entries in the outliner, I would probably have to save previous entries as outlines, which would make the tool more like the OPML Editor, which saves all content as OPML files. I do not know if there would be a way to take the text and convert it back to an outline.

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