[Gtktalog-devel] XML catalog format

[Yves Mettier]

Hi!

Two new feature requests today!!! Has a gtktalog review been published in a 
magazine ?

Anyway, those two features need to change the catalog format. Do you consider 
that
moving to an XML format is becoming a priority ? Do you think that XML is the 
best
format (compressed, of course, for smaller catalogs) ?

Remember the tests by Toni (he removed them and I don't have a copy): bzipped2 
catalogs
were nearly as small as current catalogs. And I know that we have better 
results with
gzip.

Is there anybody who would like to write the DTD of the new format, or at least 
a sample
XML file ? Anybody to start working specifically on loading/saving catalogs in 
XML ?

gnome2 support is also a priority, and the 2 priorities are independant, I 
presume.
Maybe the implementation of the new catalog format can be backported to the 1.0 
branch:
this depends on how it is implemented. However, we must work on the 1.2 branch 
:)

Yves


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