[dcc2] Multi file sends

[Phoenix Fyrestar]

Yeah, that was the point I was trying to make, though I think you made it 
better than I did.
At the end of the day, XML is not signifigantly more difficult to parse than 
any other effective scheme, and we get the benefit of having an open and 
human-readable standard that is well understdood by many applications with 
much library support.
While it is always a good idea to consider alternate possiblities, I think 
that spending too much time on comming up with another way may lead to 
re-inventing the wheel so to speak.

On Monday 26 April 2004 05:55 pm, Riley White wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Phoenix Fyrestar wrote:
> > I personally think that using XML is one of the better possible
> > solutions.
> > While I understand the reluctance to do this because it would require
> > an XML
> > parser, I think that any good solution would end up comming back to
> > something
> > XML-like anyway.
>
> I honestly don't understand why XML could be considered a bad thing
> here. Some sort of format is going to have to be defined, and why not
> XML? For those of us that don't want to link to XML libraries, we're
> really only dealing with one specific format of data so it can be
> manually parsed just like any other solution will have to be. For those
> of us that don't mind using XML libraries, we have that choice. Manual
> parsing of XML conforming to a known schema may be a little more
> difficult than whitespace delimited strings, but, speaking as somebody
> whose had to do it on a couple of occasions, it's not too bad.
>
> --Riley
>
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