Re: Use of XML for config files

["Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>]

From: Volkert Barr <barr@cs.tu-berlin.de>
 
> I have set up a first small datamodel for hierarchical configuration 
> data (nested Config_Items containing lists of (Key,Value)-Tupels) 
> and defined a BNF-Grammar for text (file) representation of this
> data.

Where is this grammar?

> I hope Stephan Leake will add it to his "Config-Proposal Page"!
> 
> The grammes defines the following style:
> 
> --
> -- Comment Block
> --
> Config_Item1.Key := Value
> 
> -- Comment
> Config_Item1.Inner_Config_Item2.Key := Value
> 
> 
> The same can be done in XML, but the next you need is
> an "XML Editor" ;-) (That is one reason, why there is so
> much Business (and money) around XML.) 
> 
> XML-like Configuration:
> 
> <configuration>
>   <config_item name= "Config_Item1" >
>     <Key> Key </Key>
>     <value> Value </value>
Can this be repeated? There might be more than one key for a config_item.

>     <config_item name = "Config_Item2" >
>       <entry>
What's the use of <entry>?

>         <key> Key </key>
>         <value> Value </value>
>       </entry>   
      </config_item>                    is missing here.

>   </config_item>
> </configuration>