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Well, obviously, OPML never caught on and became an important format. I can really only find two usages of OPML currently -- the OPML Editor (by Dave Winer) and Carbonfin's Outliner. Last time I looked at the OPML editor, it was somewhat difficult to setup and use (kind of expected for a GPL product). Carbonfin's Outliner only works on iPhone/iPad and may be using its own form of OPML internally. What I've been looking for from Carbonfin is for it's Outliner to implement import/export from Emacs Outline form since Emacs is implemented on most everything else and, even if it isn't, it's Outline form is much simpler and more useful than OPML.
Why OPML is winning
Dave Winer points to the anti-OPML questioning of an 'XML geek' and quotes the pro-OPML answer of an 'ordinary' user - "Because there are tools". As a wannabe programming geek myself (I just never had the aptitude) I can understand, to a degree, what motivates these engineers who are almost pain...
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