newby question: styling the hg status command

[Michael Smith]

Ted Pavlic wrote:
> I know the rest of this thread discusses how difficult it would be to 
> parse the output of "hg status," but I don't quite understand that.
> 
> For example, it's easy to pipe the output of "hg status" to sed and 
> xargs to get expansion and on-disk modification dates.

I actually find it very convenient to parse XML streams using xsltproc. 
It is a very clean way of operating. I think an xml style in mercurial 
would be an advantage.
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