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Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:

> On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 15:51:42 GMT, Darren New wrote:
> > and CDATA). It's also easy to write simple parsers for, given the
> > amount of power it provides.
> 
> Not if you want authentication 

For config files, I don't think we care. But maybe you meant
"validation against the DTD"; we also don't care.

> and want to parse the file without reading all of it into memory
> first.

For config files, we _do_ want to read it all into memory first, or at
least eventually.

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