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: 103376,80b3e504140e89fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-20 06:04:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eusc.inter.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Config_Files proposal Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:04:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0206190708.2ef205e4@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1024578271 7839 134.91.4.34 (20 Jun 2002 13:04:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:04:31 +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:26479 Date: 2002-06-20T13:04:31+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: [...] Yes, I'll second that! (A configuration process in a multi- company setting with people from a very heterogenous set of professions might profit from a standard that was inspired by data representation issues for more than 30 years.) : 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. >From what I can see, there isn't too much to be done, since the OO approach is already reflected in discriminated subtypes and corresponding packages. DOM2 support seems quite complete, the IDL interfaces have been mostly implemented in XML/Ada. : There's my $0.02 on it. :-) Add EUR 0.02. :-) -- Georg