Subj : The Nodelist Revisited
To : Jasen Betts
From : Scott Little
Date : Wed Jan 01 2003 08:15 am
[ 30 Dec 02 16:57, Jasen Betts wrote to Scott Little ]
SL>> I'm not "stubbornly championing one particular form" - I simply
JB> Are you prepared to consider any other forms?
HRN is still an option, and I agree there are valid reasons to use it. It's
just that I haven't seen them argued - people have come up with all sorts of
nonsensical paranoid excuses of why XML is bad instead.
JB> I'd have hoped for some improvement atleast :)
Well, for one, SLF segments that originated from XML (by *Cs using XML
processors) will obey the rules coded into the conversion algorithm. Plus, *Cs
may opt to convert incoming SLF to XML, merge in their local segment, then
convert back to SLF (if their uplink is SLF-only), rather than run an SLF
processor in parallel (by converting their XML to SLF and injecting it into the
SLF processor).
Done at a high level, these conversions will likely clean up much of the
nodelisted data, perhaps at the cost of pissing some lower *Cs off who are
currently doing their own thing.
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