From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7624df5e57d09688 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-13 01:17:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!213.73.101.75!eusc.inter.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Volkert Barr Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: config files proposal Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:17:57 +0200 Organization: TU Berlin, Fachbereich Informatik Message-ID: <3D085535.B5210D3A@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <3D03E1AD.80EB805D@san.rr.com> <3D04C9D0.7DFCED9D@san.rr.com> <4519e058.0206110515.729f4775@posting.google.com> <3D06273F.AD73660E@san.rr.com> <3D06FAF5.4FC8CA04@cs.tu-berlin.de> <3D076CCD.A1F63320@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bolero.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.cs.tu-berlin.de 1023956277 14804 130.149.19.1 (13 Jun 2002 08:17:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.tu-berlin.de NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jun 2002 08:17:57 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25849 Date: 2002-06-13T08:17:57+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote: > > Volkert Barr wrote: > > > > True, but it complicates the parsing code significantly, while XML > > > > could handle it easily with some kind of attribute-comment tag. > > > > > > Uh, it does? I don't *think* so. It seems quite straightforward to parse > > > such a thing. > > The problem here is not the parsing of an comment. > > Well, that was the problem being discussed, I think. :-) i had not engough time to follow the thread, so i was a bit ot ouf sync... ;-) > > The problem is to > > what > > kind of element the comment belongs. > > That's a good point. Sure, you'd want comments on sections and subsections > as well. That still doesn't need XML to implement. > > > http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/~barr/config_package.pdf. > > Excellent start, I think! I have made an new update! Volkert