Dehs output format (was: Re: [Dehs-devel] dehs welcome)
Julian Gilbey
jdg@polya.uklinux.net
Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:44:28 +0000
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:29:56AM +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:00:31PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > attached there is the (rather trivial) patch for uscan for using rfc882-style
> > > messages (maybe xml is overkill, the data is not structured)
> >
> > Unfortunately the patch will not produce valid rfc822-style output, as
> > some fields may be more than one line long. Given the ease of parsing
> > XML output these days, and the fact that there are so many tools
> > available for doing so, why would we want to regress to rfc822-style
> > output? Not to mention that other people may make use of this output
> > format.
>
> indeed I didn't thought at multiline output, so let's use XML (and maybe change
> this thread name or open a new one ;))
OK. Should I also change the field names to use hyphens rather than
underscores?
Julian