DR>> sqlupdate="add"
 DR>> sqlupdate="delete"
 DR>> sqlupdate="modify"

 SL> Those fields work just as well for updating the nodelist as they do for
 SL> updating SQL..  a nodediff would be in the same format as the nodelist,
 SL> except unchanged nodes are not listed, and changed nodes have one of
 SL> the above attributes.

So change them to:

update="add"
update="delete"
update="modify"

 SL> It would also allow the nodelist to be changed (eg. merge local
 SL> pointlists or multiple network nodelists into one master nodelist),
 SL> without causing diffs to fail.  Text processors like diff/patch require
 SL> the source file be exactly the same as the copy used to generate the
 SL> diff - but XML doesn't give a damn what order it's in, and neither do
 SL> mailers...

Some study needs to go into how other XML files are updated. I don't think
for an xml nodelist we are going to need keywords like update. Those
keywords could however be used for conversion tools to generate the SLFN.

With best regards, Dale Ross.  E-mail: Dale.Ross{at}p1.f1.n379.z1.fidonet.org

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