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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: XML and Ada was RE: A standard package for config files is needed
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote:
:  But maybe you meant
: "validation against the DTD"; we also don't care.

I think this is a mistake.  A DTD is a _very_ good opportunity
to think about data, even if this seem like overkill for "mere"
config files. And how fault tolerant is the configuration process?
(Speed shouldn't be an issue here, or should it?)

-- Georg