Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : andrew clarke
From : Scott Little
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 10:44 am

[ 10 Nov 02 01:42, andrew clarke wrote to Scott Little ]

ac> I can't decide whether you're saying it's too difficult to parse or
ac> not.

Fully specifying the address for each node bothers me, esp. in conjunction with
the Uplink field.

*  Initial version.  Currently the Uplink field in the human-readable
*  nodelist is ignored by rnlcvt.  Which assumes the input file is already
*  in hierarchical order.

A _correct_ implementation will be more complex unnecessarily in the name of
human readability.  Much easier to extract a human readable list from a strict
format than the other way around.

St Louis and XML both enforce proper structure in the format itself, without
relying on ignorable rules in the specification.  (and eventually someone will
try an alternate use for the Uplink, you watch)

ac>   Did you look at the source code I wrote?  (Anyone?)

I don't do C so it's not much good to me :)


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