Subj : XML
To   : Jan Vermeulen
From : Scott Little
Date : Fri Dec 27 2002 11:07 am

 [ 24 Dec 02 23:05, Jan Vermeulen wrote to Dale Ross ]

 JV>     any other list than the NodeList can only be global if all *C's
 JV>     have the capability and the ability to build their segments in
 JV>     the 'new' format.
 JV>     Without those conditions, such a list will fail to be acceptable.

Hence a top-down approach.  Those at the top will need to be the first to use 
the new software.  Segments submitted as SLF remain subject to SLF's 
limitations, but those submitted as XML won't.  As the XML software spreads 
among the *Cs, more of the XML nodelist will be XML native.  SLF nodes will not 
notice any difference, except perhaps that simple errors in listings will be 
auto-corrected by the translation process from SLF -> XML -> SLF.


-- Scott Little  [fidonet#3:712/848 / sysgod@sysgod.org]

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