Hanno Mueller (kontakt@hanno.de)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:25:52 +0200
>A job related excercise has forced me to deal with XML based
>configuration files. It is extreemely flexible and would allow for
>unlimited extensions for configurable items that are not easily mapped
>into simple attributes.
>Does anyone else have experience with using XML in this fashion?
>Thoughts?
Do you have examples for possible scenarios?
I'm not exactly overwhelmed by XML, from the things I had to do with it at
University so far. But I must admit that I am not an expert.
With all the different Unix software I had to deal with in web
applications, htdig's current configuration file format is probably the
best I have seen so far: Simple and yet still flexible through its
variables. And even the screen designers understand it - sounds like a
stupid reason to like a file format, but it's worth mentioning...
I'd see the danger of code bloat by adding an XML parser, but maybe I am
too conservative here... Is there a standard XML parser library available
that htdig could use?
Greetings,
Hanno
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