Re: Use of XML for config files

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote:
> : database-like stuff, rather than a readable document containing
> : prose, you're no longer talking about documents, so there is a bit more
> : flexibility.
> 
> Yes and no,  because "document" is a defined term in SGML/XML,
> and this is what I was thinking of in this XML discussion.

Well, yes, I was talking about "document" like normal people use it, not as
defined in a standard about text processing. :-)

My point was, once you're not talking about something that humans would
consider "readable prose", then the distinction between "character data" and
"attribute values" (which are also strings of characters) becomes much less
important. If what you're writing is a DTD for prose (like, say, manual
pages, books, etc), rather than "data" (like a metainformation database or
config files), then understanding the distinction between PCDATA and
attribute values is worthwhile. Otherwise, it's whatever looks nice and is
convenient.

Nuff said.

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