[OSVDB-discuss] XML will be updated? (I think so, but..)

[Alberto Roman Linacero]

That's great. Of course the database export helps developers and people work 
with it. In fact we use both; our own scripts to extract data and insert it 
in some specific tables, and then some direct queries to OSVDB DB.

BR,
Alberto.

El Martes, 19 de Febrero de 2008 00:56, David Shettler escribió:
> > > So, my question is: will you continue updating the XML file? I saw in
> > > your website that you won't support anymore the import XML scripts, but
> > > the XML dumps will remain and be updated.
> > > I just would like to be almost sure that the XML file will be updated
> > > as
> >
> > well
> >
> > > as the database. If you stop to update the XMl file, we will rewrite
> > > our scripts to extract data from database, that's why I would need to
> > > know it.
>
> As Jake said, we will continue to create the XML files.  There is no
> reason not to.
>
> We feel that the database exports are easier to use for new endeavors,
> particularly when combined with our API, but if you already parse the
> XML, continue doing so -- it isn't going anywhere.  Our scripts to
> parse the XML are defunct though.  If someone would like to contribute
> scripts that actually work for parsing the XML, by all means!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
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