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When importing a Workflowy OPML into Legend, Links and Mirrors are not being correctly interpreted.
Links are converted into html links to a Workflowy web page (and not to links pointing within the document itself) and Mirrors are totally ignored.
Also, perhaps it would be more intuitive if an OPML import of items from Workflowy converted each item into a bullet point by default, since that is all they ever are in Workflowy.
I’m unable to attach an example for testing the failing of the links and mirrors during import as this forums doesn’t appear to allow me to attach an OPML or ZIP file. Please advise if there is a better format or location for the example file.

I’ll email you the sample. Is there a reason the forum attachments are being blocked for OPML and zip files that should be working?

6 months later

Importing Workflowy OPML into Legend, Links and Mirrors are still not being correctly interpreted (see above description for bugs in Links and Mirrors).

I’ve pasted a small exported WF OPML file here for testing.

<?xml version=“1.0”?>
<opml version=“2.0”>
<head>
<ownerEmail>
youremailaddress@gmail.com
</ownerEmail>
</head>
<body>
<outline text=“Workflowy -&amp;gt; Legend Test”>
<outline text=“1 (this is a mirror)”>
<outline text=“1a”>
<outline text=“1a alpha” />
<outline text=“1a beta” />
<outline text=“1a delta” />
</outline>
</outline>
<outline text=“2”>
<outline text=“2a”>
<outline text=“2a alpha” />
<outline text=“2a beta” />
<outline text=“2a delta” />
</outline>
</outline>
<outline text=“3”>
<outline text=“3a” />
</outline>
<outline text=“4”>
<outline text=“4a” />
</outline>
<outline text=“5”>
<outline text=“5a” />
</outline>
<outline text=“1 (this is a mirror)”>
<outline text=“1a”>
<outline text=“1a alpha” />
<outline text=“1a beta” />
<outline text=“1a delta” />
</outline>
</outline>
<outline text=“&lt;a href=&quot;https://workflowy.com/#/05423bb86576&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; (this is a link)” />
</outline>
</body>
</opml>

3 months later
4 days later

Sorry, not yet. We’ve been focused on improving the sync system.

I don’t know if there’s actually anything we can do with mirrors because Workflowy doesn’t seem to output that it’s a mirror. It’s just two items with the same text. We could try to detect items having the same text and make them mirrors, but that could result in some bad false positives? Or we could show a popup with all of the potential mirrors and confirm whether to convert them?

Links look to be parseable at least, but it would take some time to hook up the parsing. I’ll come back and revisit it when we get the sync improvements out.

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