On 2012-11-26 20:32:17 +0100, olivier sallou wrote: > XML is nice for internal config, message/config exchanges, etc... help with > its structure and its DTD to force/help understanding the schema. > > BUT definitely not useable by an end user for end-user config. It is very > hard to read (opening an XML with vi is a ass). Not everybody is using a > Desktop with editors etc...
Emacs + nXML mode is quite fine to read XML file and it can run in a terminal (just like vi). Simple XML files are easily readable in general. Complex ones much less, but I doubt that a complex plain text based config file would be readable as well. > Plain text is readeable by non-IT people, quick to read and update. > > Manually updating XML can be a pain when modifying its structure and hard > to repair, even with tools (not always explicit on exact error position). No problems with Emacs. It tells you in real time whether the XML file is valid (by default, just well-formed) or not. And when there's an error, it can tell you where. Something I've never seen with plain text config files. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121127094039.ga5...@xvii.vinc17.org