I opened the OPML file to see what was going on and figured it out (at least, in my case) - the 79th one had an ‘&’ in the title. I did a find/replace for all ‘&’ symbols in the title and text tags for the rest of the file (the ones in the URL tags I left alone) and changed them to ‘and’ - this imported into Reader without a hitch!
Your particular problems might not be ‘&’, but check your OPML files for any other suspicious characters that Reader might choke on.
I’m running 10.6.1, for what it’s worth.
]]>Mandean book of John the Baptist:
“Woe unto you, all of you priests, for Elisabeth shall bear a child. Woe unto you, Mistress Torah, for John shall be born in Jerusalem.”
“John continued, saying: Who is my equal? Who is my equal, that thou shouldst look on him and forget me? Before my voice and the voice of my proclamations the Torah disappeared in Jerusalem. Before the voice of my discourse the readers read no more in Jerusalem. The Wantons cease from their lewdness, and the women go not forth to the…”
Compare with Jesus’ statement that the Torah was until John. (Luke 16:16)
When Jesus said “Think not that I am come to destroy the Torah” (Matthew 5:17) did he really mean the Torah was still in effect and would remain so (as Judaizers still interpret it) or did he mean essentiall “Why would I do what John has already done? The Torah was until John.”?
]]>So, perhaps there’s something to the couple of similar reports mentioned above.
Any chance you others with troubled OPMLs are, like me, running 10.6?
10.6/iMac 3.06ghz/2GB
]]>I’ve been using Mail for RSS feeds and I just have too many now that it’s difficult to follow up on them all. I needed a better app for RSS and I found it with NetNewsWire. Like you, I ran into the issue of exporting RSS from Mail, but luckily a quick Google search led me right to your solution! With NetNewsWire’s Google Reader sync and your script’s OPML I now have 72 feeds regularly synced between two macs and two iPhones, sans Mail.app!
Thank you again!
]]>Thanks for the great tutorial!
–johnt