Subj : XML
To   : Scott Little
From : Jan Vermeulen
Date : Tue Dec 24 2002 06:45 pm

    Quoting Scott Little on Tue 24 Dec 2002  6:46 to Jan Vermeulen:

 JV>>     ESLF will contain all data one ever would need; XML may extract
 JV>> whatever it needs.

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

    XML is good for local, not for global wide use.

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

 sl> Huh?

    Don't you see what a "they must adopt" attitude really means?

 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...).

 sl> Huh?

    It was said it wuld be a PITA to extract data from (E)SLF for building an 
XML base.

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

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

    There is a small but very significant difference between "look we've got 
some nice new software for you" and "you do no need to upgrade at all".

    A difference of 100 nodes, perhaps?

    Merry Christmas

    -=<[ JV ]>=-

 
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