[darcs-users] Re: XML format (was: Re: GUI)

[Mark Stosberg]

On 2004-12-16, Alexander Staubo <alex at byzantine.no> wrote:
>
> XML exists to describe these structures in a neutral, portable way. The 
> wealth of parsers, validators and transformation tools provide a 
> framework that allows you to get up and running very, very quickly.
>
> The fact that someone wrote a tool that turned "darcs changes --xml" 
> into RSS, and did this in only a few lines, is a brilliant example of 
> the way XML can empower developers.

It's a not example of using one of the wealth of parsers, though-- The
XML that darcs produces is parsed 'by hand' in that script. :) It
does use XML::RSS to generate the XML output, though. 

    Mark