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Date:      Sun, 13 May 2007 20:42:21 +0200
From:      Benjamin Lutz <mail@maxlor.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>, Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
Subject:   Re: DPS Initial Ideas
Message-ID:  <200705132042.26167.mail@maxlor.com>
In-Reply-To: <200705131258.50309.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
References:  <20070512004209.GA12218@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20070513103757.GA33322@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200705131258.50309.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>

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On Sunday 13 May 2007 13:58, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote:
> Using XML for INDEX are a very good idea mainly because it allows
> "ports" to interface in an easy way to external tools - e.g. java
> frontends - web browsers etc, etc. However there are drawbacks - Yet
> I feel that the discussion about what tool to use as indexing are
> completely misplaced if the only point is that somebody likes SQL
> better than a  directory tree.

I'd have said that using XML for INDEX is a bad idea, because INDEX can=20
then no longer be easily processed with any of the tools in the FreeBSD=20
base system. With the format it uses now, I can easily grep, awk, etc=20
it. If you need an XML version of INDEX, it's easy to have just these=20
tools build one for you though.

Not to mention that INDEX is already big enough as it is, imo. I don't=20
see why it should be bloated even more with redundant information.

Cheers
Benjamin

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