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 08:52:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: config files proposal Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1023983533 12584 134.91.4.34 (13 Jun 2002 15:52:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:52:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25879 Date: 2002-06-13T15:52:13+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: : I think this makes XML a better idea; we can allow for a "comment" tag : that is saved in the memory image, and written back out. Incidentally, comments aren't lost in XML and each comment belongs to an element. Namely, the element in which it appears. There is a comment() function available to XPath expressions, and a comment element type in XSLT for the creation of comment nodes in the output. (In SGML, things are even fancier. Comments are more Ada like, except at both ends -- like so -- and they can appear in more places than in XML.) -- Georg