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On Tuesday 29 July 2008 10:10, Kai Hendry wrote: > XML is not a good solution of testing for consistency. > > DTDs are rare, so all you'll be checking for is badly formed angled > brackets. Very poor. I wouldnt use one without a DTD - that would be too Microsofty for me! XML would be pointless without one. Technology seems to be wasted on people these days: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2008/05/07/under-the-hood-oracle-berkeley-db-xml.html When I read the above article I thought. Oh look! Someones using XML to do XMLy things. Wow! If your not using XML in a sort of relational DB based way you are merely de-compressing uncompressed data. > > Git-like sha1 for testing integrity is far better. Though I don't bother ?? checksums?? Not sure how that fits on 'new data'. > with my CSVs. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html