newformat format change

[Martin Pool]

On 02/10/05, Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo at niemeyer.net> wrote:

> The point is that this was a proof of concept, to show that using
> the text format could be interesting for a few reasons. OTOH, I don't
> plan to maintain it anymore, and unless this is taken as a real
> candidate for inclusion, or the change would affect the results I've
> shown somehow, I'm not even interested in fixes.

I have some similar code in contrib/newinventory.py.  (It's probably
bitrotted.)  I wonder how this performs compared to XML?  I might test
it.

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Martin