Traumwind - extending SharpReader, the other way

Now most people on Windows and into RSS agree that SharpReader is one of the best RSS Guis there is for Windows. But I was recently troubled with the home/office multiple computer problem and the hassle of keeping two Aggregators in synch... I had an idea of how to solve this, and one slightly hidden feature of SharpReader plays very nicely to this.
Ever noticed that SR saves ALL it's data in plain XML-files? All feeds, with all the posts you haven't deleted, with reade/unread status etc. Now this XML format is rather obious, very similar to RSS itself. I was thinking it should be a simple thing to build an alternative UI that uses these files as data. This could be done in PHP, server-side for example. Now if one devises a simple rsync upload of these files to a web-enabled dir on a webserver... Next step would be to write am alternative aggregator that can write the SR format... That would give us an webview (sans the advanced features of SR maybe), but with the possibility to mark feeds as read/unread etc... if we then sync those files back to the SharpReader installation... we could use the superior SR interface (threading etc.) when we have access to it, and use the simpler webinterface if we don't and still keep both synced...

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