Re: XML and Ada was RE: A standard package for config files is needed

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps-nospam.net>]

In <wkzny4rzl7.fsf@acm.org>, Stephen Leake wrote:

> Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:
> 
>> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote:
>> :  But maybe you meant
>> : "validation against the DTD"; we also don't care.
>> 
>> I think this is a mistake.  A DTD is a _very_ good opportunity
>> to think about data, even if this seem like overkill for "mere"
>> config files. And how fault tolerant is the configuration process?
>> (Speed shouldn't be an issue here, or should it?)
> 
> Ok. Good points. 
> 
> Speed should _not_ be an issue. That belongs in the requirements.
> 
> I think my problem is I have no idea how to go about using a DTD. In
> particular, the Glib.XML package does _not_ support validation.

That seems odd, since libxml2 supports DTD validation (they're in the
process of adding XML schemas...).  But, I'm not familiar with the
Glib binding (I imagine a GLIB2 binding would bring in libxml2...).
Seems it'd be useful to have an independent binding for libxml2 so
you don't have to bring glib into the picture if you don't need/want
it and also get full access to all the functionality (I think GLIB
just implements/uses a small subset).