Henry B. Hotz wrote:
On Jun 9, 2006, at 7:58 AM, Darren Reed wrote:
If there is any evolution of the log file format, it will
be to use XML. XML and structured data have featured
heavily in discussions about advancing syslog and the
benefits are clear: data gets typed. If the protocol
data is formatted this way then there is little sense
in writing it out in a binary format.
I'm sure you're correct, but
<curmudgeon>
Changing to an ASCII format that requires you to include the name of
each data field *twice* *in* *ASCII* around every single data item
does not seem like an advance in technology to me.
</curmudgeon>
You can also do
<reply test="it is not always necessary to have everything twice in XML"/>
It depends on the schema.
Darren
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