Re: Use of XML for config files

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:

> Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 09 Jun 2002 21:52:06 GMT, Stephen Leake wrote:
> > > 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 
> 
> True. Why is that an issue?
> 
> > and does it handle attributes?
> 
> Also true. Why is that an issue?

I agree with Stephen. The XML reader can do only what is needed to read the
config file. We don't need an SAX or DOM compliant reader, it is the same work
to read/validate all possible XML document and read a very well defined (DTD)
XML document... So the integrated reader we would use for the config package
is certainly in the order of 1_000 lines of code...

Pascal.

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