Subj : XML
To   : Jan Vermeulen
From : Scott Little
Date : Tue Dec 24 2002 06:46 am

[ 23 Dec 02 13:33, Jan Vermeulen wrote to Scott Little ]

JV>     It may upgrade to using the data from ESLF.
[snip]
JV>     ESLF will contain all data one ever would need; XML may extract
JV> whatever it needs.

If you're thinking that we should use [E]SLF -> XML until everyone can use XML,
forget it.  It won't work.  There's little incentive to use XML at all in that
scenario.

JV> If the developers will get serious and give priority to serving the
JV> net.

Huh?

BB>>>     The list produced by the utility would be in XML already.
BB>>> Then they are not working towards XML but starting from it.
sl>> More or less.  It's the only way it can work.
JV>     The problem seems to be that the XML developers do not see how
JV> they could extract that data. As if string parsing would be a PITA
JV> (even BASIC could do that in the early eighties...).

Huh?

JV>     Which is by far less probable than losing a few legacy nodes in
JV> the process.

You've been told repeatedly this won't happen.  Pay attention.


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