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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed
Date: 29 May 2002 20:29:38 +0100
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Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:

> Just to clarify, we are talking about config files not the file
> format of files stored by a program.

My current project has this problem (700 or so configurable variables
to be stored).

We are contemplating an API like

  function Value (Identified_By : String) return String;

and you get to use 'Value on the result (they are almost all numbers).

We think that Identified_By might take the form
"/box/component/subcomponent/item" which is pretty XPath-like.

How we store the data internally or on Flash is no one else's
business! We may well use XML, it's not that verbose. Perhaps not
appropriate for the config file for your toaster, though.