Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:21:56AM -0700, David Meyer:
> > Additionally there was some discussion on 'what is important to
> > capture' in the XML format. I believe Dan had also mentioned (perhaps
> > not in the WG meeting) that there would be a common/available toolset
> > to convert from MRT -> XML and XML -> MRT, so in the case where you
> > have legacy data stores you could plan to process via a common
> > pipeline regardless of the data format you choose going forward.
> 
>       heas has already written MRT -> 'sh ip bgp' (that's how
>       we're generating 'sh ip bgp' format data these days). So
>       if we have XML->MRT, then we can generate all formats in
>       use today from the XML. That would be a great step forward.

I believe MRT is far more manageable for this data.  smaller, faster,
easier to deal with programmatically.  I'd go the other direction; generate
whatever format you want from the MRT.
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