Hi, IMO its better to move out from XML. But Yaml and Json have its own disadvantages as well. In yaml you can mess the hole thing if you miss a single space/tab. In json you can't comment out a configuration block. Its better to have a UI to configure and save those configs in a yaml or json format specially when we have to deal with lots of configuration files.
By the way, windows systems and python programs use a configuration format called ini which is an old way of storing configurations using name value pares with sections [1]. 1. http://www.fcla.edu/z3950/everglades.html Thanks and regards, Thilina Piyasundara Systems Engineer Blog: thilina.piyasundara.org Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/thilinapiyasundara WSO2, Inc. <http://wso2.com/> lean . enterprise . middleware https://cloud.wso2.com On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Paul Fremantle <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree. I downloaded the MSS and C5 distros and I found the XML configs > made them seem a little outdated. > > Paul > > On 10 November 2015 at 18:06, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I brought up this idea a few years ago as well and it got shot down, and >> I thought of bringing this back again. More and more, we are starting to >> notice that the world is moving or has moved from verbose XML based >> configuration to more concise YAML based configuration. So IMO, from C5 >> based products onwards we have to move to YAML based config. >> >> Thanks >> Azeez >> >> -- >> *Afkham Azeez* >> Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com >> Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ >> * <http://www.apache.org/>* >> *email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]> >> * cell: +94 77 3320919 <%2B94%2077%203320919>blog: * >> *http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org> >> *twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez* >> <http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> >> *linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez >> <http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez>* >> >> *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Architecture mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >> >> > > > -- > Paul Fremantle > Co-Founder, WSO2 > > blog: http://pzf.fremantle.org > twitter.com/pzfreo > > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > >
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