[ 24 Dec 02 23:05, Jan Vermeulen wrote to Dale Ross ]

 JV>     any other list than the NodeList can only be global if all *C's
 JV>     have the capability and the ability to build their segments in
 JV>     the 'new' format.
 JV>     Without those conditions, such a list will fail to be acceptable.

Hence a top-down approach.  Those at the top will need to be the first to
use the new software.  Segments submitted as SLF remain subject to SLF's
limitations, but those submitted as XML won't.  As the XML software spreads
among the *Cs, more of the XML nodelist will be XML native.  SLF nodes will
not notice any difference, except perhaps that simple errors in listings
will be auto-corrected by the translation process from SLF -> XML ->
SLF.


-- Scott Little  [fidonet#3:712/848 / sysgod{at}sysgod.org]

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