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Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed
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SteveD wrote:
> 
> "Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
> news:slrnaf9khh.2g4.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> > On Wed, 29 May 2002 12:57:23 GMT, SteveD wrote:
> > ><config
> > > left="30"
> > > right="50"
> > > up="20"
> > > down="60"
> > > />
> >
> > Not a very nice XML I might say. Besides this is far to simple.
> 
> Wait a minute.  I thought you were looking for a simple way handling program
> configurations.  Now you think XML is too simple?

I suspect he means to ask how the XML would look for the following .ini
file:

name=Darren "The Dude" New
relational=<=
marriage=Wen's Husband
this.city=San Diego

and so on.

There are advantages to using XML for this. Ease of hand-editting is not one
of them.

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