Re: [vos-d] Re: sample VOS XML

2005-10-25 Thread Neil Mosafi
OK I know (unfortunately) I've not been paying huge attention to recent VOS going ons but I would say that I'd be highly inclined to go down the XML route here.  As you said, XML is pretty much the norm nowadays for describing any form of arbitrary data. Other reasons I can think of for going with

[vos-d] Re: here's another format :-)

2005-10-25 Thread Lalo Martins
I like this quite a bit. "Explicit is better than implicit" when compared to YAML, "Simple is better than complex" when compared with XML, and all in all, "Beautiful is better than ugly, readability counts". best, Lalo Martins -- So many of our

Re: [vos-d] Re: here's another format :-)

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Amstutz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Lalo Martins wrote: I like this quite a bit. "Explicit is better than implicit" when compared to YAML, "Simple is better than complex" when compared with XML, and all in all, "Beautiful is better than ugly, readability counts".

Re: [vos-d] sample VOS XML

2005-10-25 Thread Reed Hedges
I'm also inclined to avoid XML a bit, though it will be attractive to people who want to convert from other XML formats, and simply for buzzword compliance. Also, I have a python script that creates vobjcets from XML and it was pretty easy to write, I haven't added it to CVS yet since it can't de

Re: [vos-d] sample config file in XML

2005-10-25 Thread Reed Hedges
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:31:03PM -0400, Peter Amstutz wrote: > > One issue with using this syntax for what are ostensibly just "configuration" files is that using terms like site and vobject here might confuse users who know little or nothing about how VOS works. > > > What does sws

[vos-d] Re: sample VOS XML

2005-10-25 Thread Lalo Martins
And so says Reed Hedges on 10/26/05 05:08... > What the hell does "href" mean? ;) The "h" is for hyper or hypertext or somesuch. best, Lalo Martins -- So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then,