>> * using XML for data sets like the timezone list (there's more or less
>> a kind of dynamic change in it)
>
> I know I'm probably going to regret asking, but how is this better than
> Ascii?

why regret? anyway, ascii is fine (especially for the timezone list). 
maybe, homogeneous xml will pay back someday, who knows...?

perhaps this is a kind of metaphysic question.

>
> -- 
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> to see him work.
> 		-- Winston Churchill
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timo

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