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Eric: We don't want to make this XML easy for a person to deal with. Rather "if there's something we need to do in the XML right now, the approach should be to fix the tools so we don't have to do it in the XML."
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Peter: issues: a) serialization of beans to XML b) coordination -- all the various pieces working together.
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Andrew: There is the mechanics of it where of (importing and exporting data) where the readability is not so important, and there are the administrative tasks which humans have to be able to do.
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