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: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-30 02:54:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.icl.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3CF5023F.9CBDB585@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1022752474 22125 129.241.83.82 (30 May 2002 09:54:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:54:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24998 Date: 2002-05-30T09:54:34+00:00 List-Id: On 29 May 2002 20:24:44 +0100, Simon Wright wrote: > Well, it's like the advantages of Ada; you stand at least some chance > of knowing that the data you put in matches what the program reading > it expects. Absolutely not without a DTD. > I would feel a lot more comfortable hand-editing an XML representation > than this sort of thing, one gets no idea what the range of input > might be. ? Please explain