On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:22:20 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
The question that this boils down to is, "How will adopting XML affect the average user?"
None. This purely affects what a database dump file looks like (giant pile of unreadable XML crap vs giant pile of unreadable mysql crap). Mirrors and those mining mediawiki datadumps care, ordinary users won't see any difference.