Wow, what a can o' worms!
Paul Jimenez <pj at place.org> wrote:
>So where do you put them in such a way that they're standardly searchable?
>Isn't it possible to have simple (optional) :-delimited headers for that
>as well? I really, really, really think the complexity of having to
>build an XML parser into the clients far, far outweighs the minor gains.
>A suggestion, though: if we *do* want XML-described-ness, maybe an
>optional header like XML-Description: <key> could be used to hold a
>pointer to that description.
The complexity of having to build an XML parse into the clients is surely
very small -- there are many other supposedly open or free XML parsers,
one of which would surely do the job.
I might add that the difficulty of parsing "well-formed" XML into a simple
DOM is quite small. A friend of mine wrote a limited parser for his
own entertainment in his spare time at work over two days...
Validating XML, making sure that it fits a DTD, is somewhat harder.
But the client just doesn't need to do that!
/t
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