Quoting Scott Little on Sun 5 Jan 2003  6:09 to Jan Vermeulen:

 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?

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

    This implies that an XML list generated from the nodelist at one place
will not yield the same nodelist somewhere else. I don't like that.

 sl> As I said before, if this is a concern, *Cs can simply run both in
 sl> parallel.

    I would not know why I should do that. There's more important work to
do than that running wo programs that do the same and then check them for
correctnes (and I can't use a simpel "FC first second >
watsup"

 sl> It's likely they won't, though, as it will force nodelist entries
 sl> that are undecipherable to be fixed instead.

    I can do that using MakeNL and a flag list; I'm doing that already now ;-)


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