RE: [Bug-gnupedia] Storage and display

[Tom Chance]

>   The compatibility is that all HTML files are valid
> XML files, not vice
> versa. The benefit is that new tags with new
> information can be added
> without changing applications that use the data. The
> old apps will just use
> the info they need and the new apps can take
> advantage of additional tags,
> and still work on the same set of files.

That's not true, because f an old browser tries to
even look at a .xml file it will try and save it,
because it doesn't recognise it!
And you save the XML data (which is no more than a
load of formatting tags) in the text in the database,
and make perl parse the database and look for it.

Tom

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