On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:51 -0400, John McKown wrote:
> Does anybody else think that [SMF data as XML] would be useful for
> most, if not all, of the SMF data?

Some places generate an awful lot of SMF data!

> With XML, I can more easily write my own stuff in Java or a number of
> other languages which can handle XML (such as Perl and even COBOL).

(... or Lisp!)  From your outboard system it would be relatively easy to
feed your RDBMS of choice.  So yes, I think that would be worthwhile.

-- 
David Andrews
A. Duda and Sons, Inc.
[email protected]

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