[TYPO3-dev] EM, TER2, XML and other animals

[Martin Kutschker]

JoH schrieb:
> 
> Well - I think it could be better to drop both: XML _and_ serialized Arrays.
> 
> As far as I can see there is a simple table containing one line for each
> extension.
> So why don't you send it as simple CSV values without the formatting
> overhead of XML or serialized Arrays?

CVS has the disadvantage that it is unstructured. You may only have fields, 
but nothing more (mult-values, etc). Linefeeds are a problem and you have 
to take care of escaping the data yourself.

XML would have been the best choice as it's really an external 
representation of the data. I'm still wondering - and don't believe it 
really - that unserializing also breaks on servers with limited memory.

Masi