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On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:

> The second comment I have would be far more oriented to OS-APIv3: Let's
> plan on just removing the XML support altogether.  My argument for this
> is simple: if you examine the extensions that have been contributed, you
> will discover that several of the more recently contributed ones don't
> have XML templates, which means that the developers that have
> contributed them probably aren't concerned with supporting XML, and that
> the reviewers who approved them aren't either; under those conditions,
> our XML support is going to suffer bitrot over time, and I feel we
> should try to nip the problem in the bud for v3.

This is a great suggestion. I haven't really talked about this much, but I would LOVE for v3 to be a trimmed-down and tighetened-up version of the v2 API - this being one of the big things to drop.

Waldon