[Swift-devel] xml tc.data format

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 23:20 +0530, Ben Clifford wrote:
> I'd like to make tc.data be formatted as XML:
> 
> i) the present tab-deliminated format has usability issues (pretty much 
> the same as Makefile has). tabs are used for a reason (I think because 
> some fields in the file can have spaces in them, or something like that).

1. Having named args (attributes) would make it easier to skip some of
them instead of writing NULL (or was it null?).

2. The code for parsing it would be much simpler, and we could probably
remove the dependency on vds.

> 
> ii) it would be more consistent with the sites.xml format.
>