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Situation. TEXTILE is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Solution: a OPML, produced below. A TEXTILE to OPML job turns one office document into another without retyping anything. Styles, pagination and embedded content cross the bridge cleanly because we use the same engine that powers professional document pipelines. Upload a TEXTILE file above, adjust any Advanced options, and download a ready-to-use OPML. Worth knowing: TEXTILE is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Meanwhile OPML is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline.
Textile Markup
Source formatTextile is a lightweight markup language that generates HTML from a human-readable syntax. It was popularized by the Textpattern CMS and the Redmine project management tool, offering a cleaner writing experience than raw HTML.
OPML Outline
Target formatOPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for structured outlines and lists. It is most widely used for exchanging RSS feed subscription lists between podcast apps and feed readers, and for hierarchical note-taking.
Why convert TEXTILE to OPML
Opening TEXTILE in the tool that natively reads OPML is rarely clean. Converting upstream rebuilds the document in the target format so headings become headings, lists stay lists, and the receiving tool does not flag layout warnings.
HOW TO CONVERT
TEXTILE → OPML
Drop the TEXTILE file
Upload your document — or a ZIP of several documents for batch conversion — through the web form.
Convert through pandoc
Our pandoc-based pipeline opens the TEXTILE, preserves structure and typography, and writes the OPML.
Retrieve the document
Click the download button; the OPML is delivered as a single file (or ZIP of files for batch jobs).
Common Use Cases
Share across platforms
Send OPML files to anyone without worrying about whether they have the right software for TEXTILE.
Embed in documents
Drop OPML output into Word, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Notion or a website without conversion warnings.
Optimize size
OPML often produces smaller files than TEXTILE for web, email and storage.
Archive & future-proof
Store in a widely-supported format that will still open on future operating systems without legacy plugins.
TEXTILE vs OPML — Strengths and limitations
What each format does best, and where it falls short.
TEXTILE Strengths
- More expressive than Markdown in classical usage (tables, footnotes, classes).
- Mature implementation in RedCloth (Ruby), php-textile, js-textile.
- Core format of Redmine — millions of daily users.
- Clean human-readable syntax.
Limitations
- Market share decimated by Markdown since the mid-2000s.
- Not as widely supported outside the Ruby/Rails ecosystem.
- No CommonMark-style spec — implementations differ on edge cases.
OPML Strengths
- Standard RSS subscription interchange format.
- Simple XML — easy to parse and generate.
- Highly extensible via arbitrary attributes.
- Supported by every major outline and RSS tool.
Limitations
- XML verbosity — larger than a JSON-based equivalent.
- Specification is loose — different tools disagree on edge cases.
- Primary use (RSS reading) has shrunk dramatically since Google Reader.
TEXTILE vs OPML — Technical specifications
Side-by-side comparison of the technical details.
TEXTILE
- MIME type
- text/x-textile
- Extensions
- .textile
- Implementations
- RedCloth (Ruby), php-textile, js-textile
- Primary users
- Redmine, Textpattern, early Rails
- Encoding
- UTF-8
OPML
- MIME type
- text/x-opml
- Extension
- .opml
- Format
- XML with nested <outline> elements
- Standard
- OPML 2.0 (2006)
- Primary use
- RSS subscription interchange
| Specification | TEXTILE | OPML |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | text/x-textile | text/x-opml |
| Extensions | .textile | — |
| Implementations | RedCloth (Ruby), php-textile, js-textile | — |
| Primary users | Redmine, Textpattern, early Rails | — |
| Encoding | UTF-8 | — |
| Extension | — | .opml |
| Format | — | XML with nested <outline> elements |
| Standard | — | OPML 2.0 (2006) |
| Primary use | — | RSS subscription interchange |
TEXTILE vs OPML — Typical file sizes
Approximate file sizes for common scenarios.
TEXTILE
- Blog post 3-30 KB
- Redmine wiki page 5-50 KB
OPML
- Typical RSS reader export (50 feeds) 5-30 KB
- Deep outline (Scrivener novel plan) 20-200 KB
Quality & Compatibility
Headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, hyperlinks and inline images all survive the conversion with their semantic structure intact. Rare features unique to TEXTILE — legacy macros, form fields, obscure frame styles — are flattened to static content where no direct OPML equivalent exists. Tracked changes, where both formats support them, transfer cleanly.
Tips for Best Results
- Round-tripping between TEXTILE and OPML (converting back and forth) can accumulate small formatting drift — do one conversion and stay in that format.
- If the TEXTILE has tracked changes, accept or reject them before converting to avoid surprises in the OPML output.
- Very long documents split cleanly at existing section breaks; add section breaks deliberately if you need precise page boundaries.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, as long as the fonts are standard (system fonts or common office fonts like Arial, Calibri, Times, Helvetica). Custom corporate fonts survive if they are embedded in the source document; otherwise the conversion substitutes the closest available match, which can shift line breaks by a character or two.
Yes. Inline images are embedded into the OPML at full resolution, editable tables become native OPML tables, and hyperlinks keep their URLs. Complex features unique to TEXTILE — macros, form fields, track-changes — are mapped where an equivalent exists in OPML and flattened into static content otherwise.
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