Subject: Re: [spf-discuss] considering XML
On Jan 21, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
A significant stakeholder is in favour of using an XML encoding for
SPF.
+ It's Buzzword compatible
+ Management likes XML
- Uses up at least tripple the space
- Parsing the string becomes way more complicated as you need to be
able to deal with full XML (DTDs, character encodings in UCS, UTF8 or
ASCII, need to ignore superfluous elements, etc.)
- Need to include big XML parser libs (injects more errors)
- Blows up DNS caches on the way
- Next change request will be to use SOAP instead of DNS...
I guess it depends on how significant the stakeholder is.
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