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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 18:08:53 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>
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On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Jonathan Mini wrote:

>    I was thinking about using SGML actually, but I hadn't got that far. We'll
> see about whether or not it turns out to be the easiest format to deal with.

XML would probably be the better choice--it is a hell of a lot
easier to parse than SGML, despite the fact that they look so
similar on the surface.   Hm... maybe we should have a handy
little XML parser in a library to encourage this sort of thing.
:)

-john