DNV> I have some messages since I subscribed this echo. I'm wondering why
 DNV> there are no more new message about XML nodelist format. Are you
 DNV> working on it?

We're still working on it (at least I am), but real life and other projects
also take some time. I think we have a rough idea of what we want, we just
need to figure out exactly what elements we need in the XML nodelist, and
what they should be called.

I've been working on a converter to create XML nodelists from
"old" nodelists and pointlists, and last night I got it working.
The problem is that not everything we want in the XML nodelist exist in the
old nodelist, but this should be useful as a start.

Then we need to create some kind of XML diff. In its simplest form it could
just be a normal nodelist, meaning that those nodes should be added. That
would make it trivial to merge several nodelists (fidonet, os2net,
linuxnet, stn) into a single XML file. Deleted nodes could have a specific
attribute or something that makes it possible to purge them out from the
nodelist afterwards...

You are welcome to come with comments and proposals. We haven't
"decided" on anything yet so everything is open for discussion.
:-)

  Jesper,
  yeppe{at}enjoy.cc
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