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On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:29 -0500, Nathan L. Adams wrote: |
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> <rant> |
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> You're just missing the fact that a flat file (or whatever it is you're |
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> clinging to; for the purpose of this rant, I shall refer to your simple |
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> data format as "flat file") has trade-offs, just like XML's trade off is |
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> parsing overhead. XML was designed to solve certain problems; |
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> portability of data, separation and portability of presentation from the |
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> data, etc. Complexity in the parser is the trade-off. |
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Perhaps I'm missing something here but I thought the concept of --news |
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is to get information in front of as many eyes as possible. It seems |
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that information could just as easily be: |
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This upgrade is going to be a PITA and we highly recommend that you read |
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one (or more) of the following resources before proceeding: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/wherever/upgrade-instructions |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/thread=whatever |
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http://lists.gmane.org/link-to-mail-thread. |
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You have been warned. Have a nice day. (tm) |
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This would have the simplicity of a flat file and all the functionality |
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of XML at once so we can eat our cake too. Just a thought. |
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> Nathan |
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Best Regards, |
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Tres Melton |
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IRC & Gentoo: RiverRat |
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