Jake Mannix <jake at drizzle.com> made several good points, including
>Metadata: I know everybody tosses XML out there the first time their eyes
>land on the word 'metadata', but I haven't heard too much of a good
>argument against it. Sure it would add more bloat to the server, but
>including libraries for XML parsing can't be that bad - if y'all were so
>concerned about bloat, you'd have written the server in assembly, not
>Java!
[etc]
Let me also speak up in favour of XML as a metadata language.
There are free libraries to parse and manipulate it.
There are many free tools to manipulate XML documents, markup languages,
style sheets, and more coming all the time.
It lets this project move right to the question of what information
the metadata should contain rather than what format it is in.
And, frankly, I rather like thinking of things in the Document-Object
Model...
/t
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