[Rpm-metadata] two other areas needed

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Oct 15 12:46:43 UTC 2003


On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:07:02AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > I like the extensibility of XML, so my feeling is that we don't lock
> > down the format.  If we do that, though, everyone's parsers will need to
> > handle tags and namespaces other than ones it's expecting, anyway. 
> 
> why not just make anything that isn't defined in the specification we
> come up with here be ignored.
> 
> that way anything you can't deal with can be dropped.
> 
> I figured the whole point of this was to define a baseline that everyone
> can use to get 'enough' information from.

  I totally agree !

Daniel

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