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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Config_Files proposal
Date: 20 Jun 2002 08:37:25 -0700
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in message news:<aeqcl6$sgg$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...
> All other things being equal, gaining an XML parser in the process would be
> A Good Thing. Imagine if one day when everything is sunshine and rainbows

Won't happen. At best you'd get something that can only parse the
limited syntax that the config file happens to use.

If folks really want an XML parser in the language, that should be a
separate effort. Perhaps the one Gnat developed could be used, now
that the license has changed?

If not, I don't see any hope of putting XML in the language either.
The effort would just be too much. XML/Ada hasn't gotten to 1.0 yet
after more than a year of effort, and I believe that effort has been
supported by ACT (or ACT-Europe?)