BB>     I do not understand why there would be a problem with a utility
 BB> that produces an XML list from the nodelist.

An XML nodelist could be thought of as a "superset" of the
current nodelist. It would be pretty easy to strip structure, extended
characters, extra flags and other "new stuff" from the XML
nodelist and output a vanilla St. Louis format nodelist, but when doing it
the other way around the result would lack all the "extended"
features that the new format otherwise could provide.

  Jesper,
  yeppe{at}enjoy.cc
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