As much as I like and will support the concept, I couldn't help but cringe that someone comes up with a new "web-based" system - and then defines their proprietary formatting for their config file instead of trying to reuse existing standards, e.g., adopting XML as a format.
In general, though, XML and other such tools are used for applications (such as supply chain management), whereas lower level (less complex) tools such as standard text files served by HTML are used for Internet protocols.
Needless to say, had Web-o-Trust used XML, it's unlikely that Declude JunkMail would have supported it quickly, and it's unlikely that we would have added our own WOT (which would have hurt our customers). Since the concept is quite simple, and doesn't require any special tools, we can add support for it quite easily.
Very sad, indeed.
Is it though? There isn't much need for parsing tools. The developers of WOT have collate (which unfortunately uses Python), and we're coming up with a Windows .exe to do the same thing. But if Joe Developer wants to add WOT support to their anti-spam software, they don't need to deal with the details.
So we're not talking about dozens or hundreds of applications that are interfacing to WOT (as opposed to DNS-based spam databases, where there are probably hundreds of such applications). Sure, there will be some that duplicate collate (such as ours), and probably some that do something else that is neat. But not enough that I think XML would be necessary.
-Scott
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