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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Use of XML for config files
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 00:02:14 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 09 Jun 2002 21:52:06 GMT, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Volkert Barr <barr@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
>> Yes XML can help here, but the most projects i have seen, XML was a
>> complete 
>> overkill! 
> 
> You really should look at the implemenation of Glib.XML. Get it from
> the GtkAda distribution at http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/
> 
> It's _one_ Ada package; the body file is 671 lines long. I don't think
> that's overkill for anything!

But it doesn't contain any verification code and does it handle
attributes?

Preben