Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?

[Thomas Zander]

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On Monday 22 December 2003 16:23, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > Could you point out what the expected result would be since I see no
> > difference between this and the plain-text approach of merging.
>
> Well, duh. That's because diff(1) doesn't understand it either. By
> pure heuristics it happens to do the right thing more often than not
> for source code and english text. It's wrong for almost everything
> else.

XML is very very different from binairy text; as applications will ignore 
ordering of Elements when ordering is not needed so you are allowed to switch 
ordering without anything breaking (for example)

Your example uses different Attributes (the 'name1', 'name2' variable names) 
which make a merge like: 
<foo name3="val2" />
plainly illegal.

I find it quite annoying that you (plural) simply tell others they are wrong 
since you can't see how the solution could work.
I noticed this before on various subjects, but I let it slide.
This time you trotted onto my terrain of expertise and the people that _think_ 
they are knowledgable about the subject and clearly make bogus claims are 
very annoying to discuss with.

I'll leave it by repeating that the problems you think are un-solvable have 
been solved and the solutions are used daily by many many people.


Its like the oracle said; you can't look beyond a decision you don't 
understand.  I think I know what she meant with that.  Pinpoint that decision 
and learn more about it if you want to go forward in life.
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Thomas Zander
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