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 06:20:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: config files proposal Date: 13 Jun 2002 06:20:04 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0206130520.6c6489f5@posting.google.com> 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: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1023974405 21199 127.0.0.1 (13 Jun 2002 13:20:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jun 2002 13:20:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25857 Date: 2002-06-13T13:20:05+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote in message news:<3D076CCD.A1F63320@san.rr.com>... > 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. :-) No, it wasn't. > > 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. You're almost there. What I was trying to point out is that XML doesn't really support it at all (at least not without adding some kind of "commented-block" tag. Yeeach.). > > http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/~barr/config_package.pdf. Out of the 3 options presented there, I think the ".ini" looks the best by far. The others just have way too much syntactic cruft obscuring the important information. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - (temporarily down)