On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:32:10PM -0400, Guillaume Filion wrote:
"David Brodbeck" <gull(_at_)gull(_dot_)us> wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
OK, what's wrong with specifiying a dual data format now?
It combines the worst implementation features of both formats:
- You still need a custom parser for the old format.
- You still need a big fat XML library for the new format.
It was shown on this mailing list that you can make a 2KB specialised XML
parser for SPF only, so no need for the big fat XML lib.
Wasn't it also on this list that it was argued that a specialised parser
doesn't cut it, and furthermore that a specialised parser in a sense
violates xml standards by not parsing xml but a tiny small subset of it?
Koen
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