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From: Volkert Barr <barr@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: config files proposal
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:17:57 +0200
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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