[dcc2] Multi file sends

[Tom McAlee]

I'm not a fan of XMLifying everything, although this does seem to be an
appropriate use of it.  Like others have said, even without XML libraries it
wouldn't be much more effort than parsing a tokenized string.  For those who
have and/or already use XML libraries, it will fit right in.

Somebody else brought up the possibility of writing binary data at the
beginning of the file.  I'm not so sure about that idea.  Given the
skepticism thats already out there concerning DCC2's security, an open XML
format that is easily readable by anyone is probably preferable.  People are
more comfortable with something when it is not obscured.

Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phoenix Fyrestar" <miyako_houou at comcast.net>
To: "DCC2 Working Group List" <dcc2 at dcc2.org>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [dcc2] Multi file sends


> 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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