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David Chisnall writes:

> > Aka: the guy who added kern.geom.confxml in 2002
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> XML is not great for generating or parsing,

I'll have you know that XML was *THE HOT THING* in 2002 :->

Also I disagree wrt to "generating", because that's just a matter
of sbuf_printf() calls, but parsing ?  Yeah, bugger that.

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