Allan Lyons wrote: > If I come up with something that works for arbitrary, valid XML, would > anyone else be interested?
There's certainly quite a bit of interest in such work from what I've heard. A particular scenario would be if you can generate light-weight patches for the large zipped XML files (ODF, some OOXML) that are much kinder than the current large binary patches for these files. Albeit that brings up the issue of zip-transparent patch types, which have been debated but nothing yet has happened on that front either. One issue to consider, however is the question of "valid". Presumably you aren't talking about constraining to well-described schema (as in the XML world usage of "valid") and instead just mean syntactically valid. Even then, David Roundry has expressed concern that even syntactically invalid documents may need to be expressed (consider an XML document in progress composed in a text editor and not syntactically validated until "finished"), so there'd need to be some sort of fallback mechanism in that case. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
