On Thu, 20 May 2004, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
Yes, that's the plan. Publishers should keep publishing the existing
syntax if that works for them. If, one day, they need to say
something they can't say in the old syntax, they should be able to
upgrade to the XML version and all the clients out there should (in
theory) be able to understand the new stuff.
The current SPF syntax is just as extensible as XML. And smaller. And
IMHO more readable. If you can define new attributes for XML, you can
define new mechanisms for SPF.
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