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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Use of XML for config files
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:29:20 +0000 (UTC)
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Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
:  The XML reader can do only what is needed to read the
: config file.

Indeed the ckecking can be done outside the application!
If the configuration document has been validated somewhere,
the program can slurp the data and do no ckecking (other than
what cannot be captured by an XML validating application/editor).
Done.