Subj : XML
To   : Jan Vermeulen
From : Scott Little
Date : Fri Jan 03 2003 08:38 am

 [ 01 Jan 03 17:50, Jan Vermeulen wrote to Scott Little ]


 JV>     So far so good. You admit that a standard nodelist is needed in
 JV> order to fill in the holes. In stead of hunting for holes, just take
 JV> the whole nodelist and convert it to xml. Less PITA.

It doesn't make any difference which order they're merged.

 JV>     You might want to read P4 a bit beyond 2.1.11 and 2.2 in order to
 JV> understand what I really had in mind.

Until XML is the official nodelist format, NCs will not be required to carry 
it.  By the time it IS the official format, it will arrive as XML already.

 JV>     Well, this is the first time that you admit there will be flaws;
 JV> we do make progress, do we not?

I wouldn't consider it a flaw.  Since your only other option is SLF, from which 
the broken data originates, you can only gain by XML.


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