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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: XML Archive index
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 20:36:51 GMT
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Andrew Plotkin  <erkyrath@eblong.com> wrote:
>Sean T Barrett <buzzard@world.std.com> wrote:
>> I will take the opportunity to reiterate: I think XML is way
>> too heavyweight and way too non-text-friendly for most applications.
>
>If you don't like XML, pretend I don't either. Write your own parser
>for the Master-Index.xml I've got. You'll need to handle &gt;, &lt;,
>&amp;, &#xFF;, tags, attributes, and that's it. (I'm considering adding
>CDATA for the descriptions, but I don't think I'm going to.)

Sorry, that was just me soapboxing in general, not really
talking about this task in particular.  You've chosen to generate
XML output because others asked for it, and I have no problem with
you doing so.

SeanB
