
9 Oct
2004
9 Oct
'04
2:07 p.m.
Jonathan Ingram wrote:
The easiest way to drastically reduce the amount of wasted space used by PG is to get rid of the multiple editions, transition to one decently marked up XML master format, and convert to required output formats on the fly. This has approximately zero chance of happening any time soon.
I am a big supporter of XML, but I challenge you to automatically create an acceptible ASCII version from one of my XML files without manual intervention... One small warning, they have loads of tables and other challenging stuff. I think it can be done, but it is far from trivial. Jeroen.