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  15     <B>Mark Hetherington</B>
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  17        TITLE="[IRCServices Coding] XML database download">mark at ctcp.net
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  19     <I>Mon Mar 18 12:37:20 PST 2002</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i> Andrew Church wrote:
  35 </I>&gt;<i>      Um, why?  There's nothing special about XML that would cause this
  36 </I>&gt;<i> problem to happen.  I'm using XML because it's self-documenting as to the
  37 </I>&gt;<i> meaning of each field.  If you don't like XML write your own converter to
  38 </I>&gt;<i> something else.
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  40 I never expressed my feelings wrt XML one way or another, merely suggested
  41 an alternative. My reasons for suggesting an alternative were that I have
  42 yet to see the XML download actually work correctly despite trying various
  43 browsers and operating systems, plus for debugging what seems to trigger
  44 the failures as I previously mentioned.
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  46 Until the database format for version 5 exists, it would be somewhat
  47 redundant to develop an application myself that would have to be rewritten
  48 once the new format is released.
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  50 [snip]
  51 &gt;<i>      I don't get this either, at least with the previous copy of your
  52 </I>&gt;<i> databases that you sent me.  Send me the current versions and I'll try
  53 </I>&gt;<i> again.
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  55 Databases sent off list.
  56
  57 The problems are different again (stats information appears to be complete
  58 yet, but no channels and many missing nicks), so the problem seems to
  59 change as the database evolves.
  60
  61 --
  62 Mark.
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