ChangeLog for R packages {was "Wish list"}

Some of us don't mind using XML because it gives us much more
flexibility to do interesting things with our data quite easily at the
expense of a little markup.  

Would it be easy to write a function that read the XML and produced
something like the current NEWS format?

If that's easy, then one option is to suggest that people keep the
original source in XML, with the BUILD process doing the conversion,
but allow people to edit the human-readable version directly if they
prefer.  

Duncan Murdoch