Re: Use of XML for config files

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

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> :  Having a very explicit file format finalized before anyone
> : even decides what the API looks like is kind of silly.
> 
> Well, OTOH, file formats do have consequences for what you can reasonably
> want to be present in an API don't they?

Yes. But what are we more concerned with? The file format, or what you can
do with the file format? If the file format is already fixed, then trying to
come up with the best API to manipulate it is a worthwhile exercise. When
the question is "what are we doing here", assuming the file format is fixed
is probably a bad idea.

I suspect it's so obvious to you how you'd use something like this that some
of us appear very dense or blind or something. It's simply that you already
have a good idea of the API in your head you just haven't revealed. Clearly
everything in Stephen's discussion could be implemented either way. You
haven't said just what it is you couldn't implement with a format less
complex than XML. That's what I'm looking for.

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