[ 04 Jan 03 15:26, Jan Vermeulen wrote to Scott Little ]

 JV>     How can you be 100% sure that you will get the old data back when
 JV> generaing an SLF list from the XML data?

You can't, but that's dependant on the broken-ness of the input SLF. 
Theoretically, the SLF -> XML conversion will only extract "known
good" data, leaving the rest as undecipherable nonsense which XML
native programs will ignore, but will be restored when converted back to
SLF.

As I said before, if this is a concern, *Cs can simply run both in
parallel.  It's likely they won't, though, as it will force nodelist
entries that are undecipherable to be fixed instead.

 sl>> The only issues there are buggy or stupidly designed programs..
 JV>     Which will not happen. Is that what you want to say?

Never say never :)


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