[ 23 Dec 02 13:33, Jan Vermeulen wrote to Scott Little ]

 JV>     It may upgrade to using the data from ESLF.
[snip]
 JV>     ESLF will contain all data one ever would need; XML may extract
 JV> whatever it needs.

If you're thinking that we should use [E]SLF -> XML until everyone can
use XML, forget it.  It won't work.  There's little incentive to use XML at
all in that scenario.

 JV> If the developers will get serious and give priority to serving the
 JV> net.

Huh?

 BB>>>     The list produced by the utility would be in XML already.
 BB>>> Then they are not working towards XML but starting from it.
 sl>> More or less.  It's the only way it can work.
 JV>     The problem seems to be that the XML developers do not see how
 JV> they could extract that data. As if string parsing would be a PITA
 JV> (even BASIC could do that in the early eighties...).

Huh?

 JV>     Which is by far less probable than losing a few legacy nodes in
 JV> the process.

You've been told repeatedly this won't happen.  Pay attention.


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