Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Micael Bulow
From : Jan Vermeulen
Date : Sat Jan 04 2003 03:39 pm

    Quoting Micael Bulow on Sat 4 Jan 2003  5:38 to Jan Vermeulen:

 JV>>     And I intend to continue to write it as I've always done, using
 JV>> a plain dos text editor.

 mb> That would be no problem. You could still do that with XML.

    Really?

 - Move an entire line from one hub to the next
 - Duplicate a line, change the node number and the phone number on
   that line
 - Do a general search and controlled replace on the entire file

    Just to name a few of what I've done during the last month...

        [...]

 JV>>     And you're incapable of writing a nodelist parser in order to
 JV>> obtain an XML database?

 mb> Your'e missing the point.

    Not impossible, but have you checked your explanations?

 mb> But, judgeing by the latest weeks of discussions, the rest of the
 mb> community seem to want an old comma-demelited textfile eaven in the
 mb> future, so I think we can put this battle on hold (for now). :-)

    It is always wise to lean back and reflect for some time ;-))


    -=<[ JV ]>=-

 
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