newformat format change

[James Blackwell]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:41:26AM -0500, John A Meinel wrote:
> I still think that xml is decent for long-term storage. It allows 
> nesting, which is something that RFC822 doesn't. Which is why it makes a 
> lot of sense for potentially nested inventories (which hasn't happened 
> yet, but still could.) But even without nested inventories, it would get 
> pretty complex to try and write RFC822 inventory information, since you 
> have a lot of files in an inventory, and a lot of information about each 
> file.

Did I read in another thread that XML was compressing poorly?
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