Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Jan Vermeulen
From : andrew clarke
Date : Mon Jan 06 2003 05:40 am

Sun 2003-01-05 18:49, Jan Vermeulen (2:280/100) wrote to Scott Little:

sl>>         <link type="IP">
sl>>             <address />213.84.184.65
sl>>             <flags />IBN
sl>>         </link>
sl>>     </node>

>     Either way, it takes a lot more screen and a lot more typing for
> *Cs that are supposed to keep their part of the nodelist up to date.

This is probably the only remaining thing that turns me off the idea of an XML
nodelist.  People shouldn't need to edit it by hand - it'll frighten them away.
But I understand there are numerous GUI XML editors floating around.  I don't
know if any do validation though, or how the validation process (ie.
syntax-checking the XML) actually works in reality.  Scott?

>     Parsing by a mailer will take considerably more time, wether it
> builds its own database or uses the XML file instead of the GONL (Good
> Old NodeList).

>     The size of the uncompressed XML nodelist will be about 275% of the
> GONL; your compression ratio will be better becayse of the many spaces
> so you may end up with a zip file size of 135%.

>     You're worse off as soon as you start adding charcters over 0x7F
> and follow the UT-8 or even UNICODE rules.

Not a big problem.  Anyone really bothered by the size and extra processing
time can keep using SLF.

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