[Gllug] Open Source for charities?

[Ryan Cartwright]

t.clarke wrote:
> I bet the XML document contains 5 million bytes of tags and a few hundred of
> actual data    !haha

Actually it's not that bad but still quite entertaining.

You get 32 lines of Adobe comment/advert at the top (which in this case 
doubled the length of the file) then there's sections which contain the 
data within tags for each question. So it's <Section><address>123 High 
Street etc.</address><name>Name<.name></Section>.
It all seems quite simple but the real wonder in the one I saved was 
that each tag had line breaks within the tag construct. Add to that the 
DOS carriage returns at the end of each "question" and what you see (in 
vim for example) is..

<P1
>^M
<address
>123 High Street</address
>^M
</P1
>^M

which of course, for 11 questions, is so much easier to manage that a 
simple formmail result. :o)

Of course the XML formatting is not NCC's problem but forcing us to use 
Acrobat for something like this is.

Ryan
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