[mapserver-users] XML mapfile?

[Puneet Kishor]

In response to this and to Steve Lime's (and other's) idea about a separate
XML list, I am with C F (btw, unless you prefer to be referred to as C F,
who are you... you make really good points, and I would like to refer to you
by name ;-)

A separate XML list would be self-defeating... when I proposed a web-forum a
long time ago, _one_ of the many reasons behind it was to tune out specific
discussions, and/or tune in to others. Opposition to that idea was that
filtering would never give me the whole picture.

I can choose to not participate in the XML debate because it bores me to
tears or, even better, because I know nothing about it. But at least I will
have a gist of the arc of the discussion.

Evolving the mapfile format to XML is a foundational change, and we all need
to be invested in it.

I completely vote against a separate XML list... otherwise next we know we
will have a separate "where-can-I-get-a-Windoze-binary" list, or a separate
"why-is-mapscript-not-working-with-PHP-4.2.x" list... you get the picture.

XML is in our future, and we have to discuss it here.

Just my 2 rupees.

Puneet.

> The XML list sounds like a good idea, but I'm concerned that only XML 
> proponents would subscribe.... then there'd be nobody to argue with.  
> Where's the fun?