[Clfs-dev] Simplification of the XML

[William Harrington]

On May 19, 2010, at 20:24 PM, Joe Ciccone wrote:
>
> Thoughts, Comments? I would really like to implement this asap. I  
> don't want to make a change this major without putting it out there  
> first. When it's all said and done, it should make the xml  
> considerably smaller. we have something like 6000+ xi:includes  
> right now, i bet we could bring that down to under 500 and remove  
> almost every duplicate file. (rough numbers off the top of my head)
>
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I think we briefly discussed this in chat the night you posted this.  
I got a chance to read it more. Been a hectic work life lately. I  
think we should try it and see how it goes. I'm all for it, mostly  
cause it'll help make the book smaller and kill duplicate files.

-William Harrington