Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : andrew clarke
From : Scott Little
Date : Mon Jan 06 2003 07:46 am

 [ 06 Jan 03 05:40, andrew clarke wrote to Jan Vermeulen ]

 ac> I don't know if any do validation though, or how the validation
 ac> process (ie. syntax-checking the XML) actually works in reality.
 ac> Scott?

"Legal" XML simply means that all tags are properly terminated, etc. and most 
good XML libraries support DTDs and/or Schemas which check the structure and 
data for compliance with user defined (ie. FTSC or *C issued) specs.  Any 
segment processor that is capable of rejecting bad incoming segments will be 
able to manually check local segments after modification and before getting 
sent upsteam.

Given the availability of XML libraries, it probably won't be too out of the 
question for a dedicated XML Nodelist editor to be written somewhere along the 
line, rather than rely on generic XML editors.


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