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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:07:22 +0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 29 May 2002 02:18:28 GMT, SteveD wrote:

> Gee. I thought this was just the kind of thing that XMLAda was good
> for.
> 
> A few lines of code to read the configuration file (XML) followed by a
> few lines of code to access the data.
> 
> Then if you decide you want to do something more fancy with
> configuration there is little additional cost.

The problems with XML is:

   1) Hard to handedit/read for the user
   2) Have applications depend on XML/Ada for only the config files
      seams bloat.
   3) Would need a DTD for each the config file

Preben