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,a26758eec3c2e1ad X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-13 20:27:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-05!supernews.com!feed.textport.net!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!cox.net!p02!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D096286.8070002@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Use of XML for config files References: <3CFC5DB2.A21DCF61@cs.tu-berlin.de> <4519e058.0206041129.5b250124@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0206100702.5a4b431a@posting.google.com> <3D0769F7.68F5BD9C@san.rr.com> <4519e058.0206130618.2ef74ee8@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 03:27:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1024025271 68.12.51.201 (Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:27:51 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:27:51 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25919 Date: 2002-06-14T03:27:51+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes: >>I could indeed see that being a minor benifit for a small minority of >>users. But I hardly think it counterbalances the hours the rest of us >>will have to spend on the phone explaining XML to users so that they >>can reconfigure their application. > > I'm beginning to agree with you. Requiring users to type & is too > much. Perhaps it would be a good idea to support XML saving and restoring as a kind of "import/export" function. That way people could run the config file through XML tools they might have if they want to do that for some reason, without it being the default. I suppose another "We're *all* right!" weasel option would be to put multiple file format save/restores in child packages. Perhaps we could even make a save/restore tagged type that folks can supply, with (preferably) something producing human-readable output as the default. > I was excited to be on the bandwagon for once; sometimes I get tired > of swimming upstream all the time :(. At least all that exercise is good for your heart.... :-)