Question

I am creating an RSS reader as a hobby project, and at the point where the user is adding his own URL’s.

I was thinking of two things.

• A plaintext file where each url is a single line
• SQLite where i can have unique ID’s and descriptions following the URL

Is the SQLite idea to much of an overhead or is there a better way to do things like this?

Answer 1

What about as an OPML file? It’s XML, so if you needed to store more data then the OPML specification supplies, you can always add your own namespace.

Additionally, importing and exporting from other RSS readers is all done via OPML. Often there is library support for it. If you’re interested in having users switch then you have to support OPML. Thansk to jamesh for bringing that point up.