I looked at the version that Dale had put up, and I considered a lot of the
discussions I have seen and participated in, and then I decided to make my own
version of an xml fidonet nodelist.

I started with a DTD, and then I made an XML file pointed at the DTD, and
started entering node information to walk the tree down to my address
(1:211/107).  I realize that it is incomplete, and there are probably things
that someone might want moved around, but I looked at this from a perspective
of experience I have had with walking xml trees using the DOM, etc.  I think
that the structure should be such that an application can look at a node, check
the attributes, and then decide if it needs to step into the node.  That is why
I use attributes, to help with the processing decision of whether to look at
the nodes data or skip it.

The DTD includes a connection type of radio, but there is no sample of this in
my xml sample file. (use your imagination :}).

I put up a quickie page, http://www.logartsol.com/ftn/default.htm, which has
links to both the sample xml and the dtd.  If you would prefer to go right to
the sample, the url is http://www.logartsol.com/ftn/ftn_nodelist_sample1.xml.

Let me know what yous guys think :)

-Michael Cassidy
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