Quoting Micael Bulow on Sat 4 Jan 2003 18:27 to Jan Vermeulen:

 mb>> Of cource we have to see to it that everything we change also can
 mb>> be provided in a backward compatible format for the sysops.

 JV>>     Ok, the intention is there. But how sure can you be that not
 JV>> even one byte will get lost or damaged in the operation?

 mb> XML is verry strict. Either you have a valid XML file, or you dont.

    How do you check validity?

    After all, a lot of data varies from node to node...

 mb> The risc of an invalid file is much bigger in the old format (which
 mb> we have seen to often).

    Invalid data in one line do not necesserily mean that the entire file is invalid.

    Flag checks will be done at ZC and RC level.

    A corrupted file will yield a different CRC from the one specified in
the upper lines of the segment.

 mb>> ONE of the solutions could be some changes at
 mb>> toplevels to be able to add techniques widely used today.

 JV>>     Explain 'toplevels'. Who? What? Why?

 mb> I dont know. We dont have a solution yet.

    You apparently do not know how, but I did not ask the question you try to answer.

    I want to know who or what are the top levels you meant and why you
considered to start from them (which or whatever they are).

 mb>> After all, the net is geting smaller every day. The main task is to
 mb>> turn that trend around.

 JV>>     Do you really think that a nodelist is the place to start?

 mb> No. Actually I dont quite get why everyone is starting there.

    Because the loudest voices are about problems with their nodes entry; I
am still waiting for a list telling me the who, what and why of those
problems.


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