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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80b3e504140e89fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-19 20:07:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Config_Files proposal Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:48:36 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0206190708.2ef205e4@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1024505318 29200 136.170.200.133 (19 Jun 2002 16:48:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jun 2002 16:48:38 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26454 Date: 2002-06-19T16:48:38+00:00 List-Id: XML is significantly better than some of the other formats suggested here for one factor: Other tools will be able to make use of it. If it comes to displaying an initialization file or using the data in any other way, you gain the ability to make them work in entirely new contexts without having to do some form of data conversion. 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 and pastel unicorns and Ada has some kind of standard means of displaying web page stuff, your initialization file XML data slides right in there. Imagine that once the tools are there to handle XML on input and output how many other things might be built on top of Grace that could leverage this capability. IOW, use this as an excuse to build an XML DOM & SAX. (I'd like to see an OO implementation of this using tagged records and closely following the W3C DOM model, despite the very nice non-OO implementation done by XML/Ada.) There's my $0.02 on it. :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:4519e058.0206190708.2ef205e4@posting.google.com... > > So really a better question right now would be to ask if anyone has > any big objections to any of the approaches presented (other than XML, > to which the objections are already well recorded). Also, does anyone > have any strong reasons why they think one is much better than the > others?