[Social-discuss] Building useful export functionality

[Nick]

Hi again,

Firstly, apologies if this list isn't the best venue to ask this - 
please let me know if there's one more appropriate for me.

I'm working on building good, useful export tools into a blogging 
platform at present. The export is just Atom, which is nice and easy 
to work with.

However I'm not sure what the best route is for setting the id tag.  
The post URI would work, but seems less ideal if it's being imported 
into another blogging engine - or is this not the case; is the 
intention of this tag ONLY to provide a unique identifier, which a 
new blogging engine can then use to identify specific posts? If I 
wasn't to use the URI, what would be appropriate? A hash of the 
content?

Also, exporting comments is something I'm not sure how to handle.  
The comments in a sense belong to their respective posters, so I 
wonder whether it's reasonable to include atom xml of comment 
threads belonging to a post in a grand 'export' function? Any 
thoughts on what the right thing to do here is?

Looking forward to any responses,

Nick

-- 
GPG : 0x04E4653F           9732D7C7A441D79EFDF094F61F48567404E4653F