Subj : XML
To   : Scott Little
From : Jan Vermeulen
Date : Fri Dec 27 2002 07:05 pm

    Quoting Scott Little on Fri 27 Dec 2002 11:07 to Jan Vermeulen:

 sl>  [ 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.

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

    Ask the top if it wants to do this. It's only six people.

    Of course you will nead consencus at that level...


    -=<[ JV ]>=-

 
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