[Distutils] PEP 241 draft

[Paul Prescod]

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
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> ....
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> That still leaves the choice/design of a DTD, though, and given the
> community's propensity for trying to cover every possibility, I'm
> doubtful of getting that done in time.  

I would suggest an algorithmic transformation from metadata to DTD
(perhaps performed by hand). For instance turn every metadata item into
an element of the same name with a value attribute or content. Then
there are no decisions to be made.

We should establish a convention for this format, just as we would for
RFC 822,that unknown elements should be ignored or passed along silently
(depending on the type of application). That gives us an upgrade path.

Oh yeah, another reason for XML is Unicode. :)
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