[Python-Dev] NEWS consolidation (original) (raw)

David Ascher DavidA@ActiveState.com
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 20:36:11 -0700

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> XML is never high on your list of suggestions. On the other hand, > it's exactly appropriate for this task. Not if you ever want me to supply a news item again. XML is unreadable and untypable.

Think of XML as a database format. The input could be in a formalized version of the current NEWS format, and the output could be whatever people wanted to write. It's not a bad database format for textual data. Better than pickles, IMO.

--da