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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed
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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:

> I suspect he means to ask how the XML would look for the following
> .ini file:
> 
> name=Darren "The Dude" New
> relational=<=
> marriage=Wen's Husband
> this.city=San Diego
> 
> and so on.
> 
> There are advantages to using XML for this. Ease of hand-editting is
> not one of them.

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.

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.