April 19, 2000
2:24 p.m.
<<On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:49:45 -0700 (PDT), Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> said:
There has been talk from various quarters of XMLizing the whole thing, but it would take some work and as far as I know nobody's done it yet.
And there is no inherent virtue in XML. The current format has the benefit that it is easily parsed by both machines and humans, which would be much more difficult in any XML-based scheme. -GAWollman