Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To : Micael Bulow
From : Jan Vermeulen
Date : Fri Dec 20 2002 02:39 am
Quoting Micael Bulow on Mon 16 Dec 2002 2:45 to Jan Vermeulen:
mb>> The nodelist is to be distributed and read by machines, not humans.
JV>> Not quite:
JV>> the nodelist is read by humans and machines
mb> Are you reading the nodelist for brekfast, or what? =)
I have it for lunch on Friday and for dinner on Tuesday ;-))
No kidding: I write part of the nodelist, every week. My part's title is
REGION28.xxx.
And I intend to continue to write it as I've always done, using a plain dos
text editor.
Why?
First: because I'm good at it ;-)
Second: because changes are easily made; moving a node from one
hub to another takes no more than a few keystrokes and 2 seconds.
Third: because file wide changes are a matter of less than seven
keystrokes
Fourth and most important: that's the way my ZC wants them
JV>> The cost of transfer of ZIPped XML over phone lines is 1.23
JV>> times the cost of the same ZIPped file in ASCII style.
mb> Yes, that's why we are applying an appropriate stylesheet for those
mb> who needs the old format.
The current and not yet old format is needed by most, but that I have
explained before and I hate to repeate myself.
mb> It is much harder to convert from the old format to XML then from
mb> XML to the old format since there is a standard XML parser in every
mb> modern programing language, script language and platform today.
And you're incapable of writing a nodelist parser in order to obtain an XML
database?
-=<[ JV ]>=-
* Origin: The Poor Man's Workstation -- Wormerveer NL (2:280/100)
