[Rpm-metadata] xml update

[James Olin Oden]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >    - it's a bit of a shame that the provides and requires really
> >      can't be shared, but well maybe that reflect the differences
> >      in semantic of both formats :-\
> >
> 
> Yes, a shame. I know of no reason why these can't be shared, but perhaps 
> I've
> overlooked some message in the spew of Fedora mail.
> 
> I'd also suggest (again) unifying name with version in entry so that
>      <entry name="rpm" flags="GE">
>         <version epoch="0" ver="4.1.1"/>
>      </entry>
> becomes
>     <entry name="rpm" flags="GE"  epoch="0" ver="4.1.1"/>
>
On the same note was there any reason that tag atributes were choosen
rather than children tags, as I would much prefer:

	<entry>
		<name>rpm</name>
		<flags>GE</flags>
		<epoch>0</epoch>
		<ver>4.1.1</ver>
	</entry>

Was it in order to consume less disk space or their other disadvantages 
to that approach (i.e. the one I am suggesting)?

Cheers...james