On Monday, July 12, 2004, 4:59:27 PM, decjunkmail wrote: d> I guess I wasn't clear enough -- Maybe I should be blunt:
d> Editing XML files in notepad sucks! I should be able to d> quickly edit configuration files in notepad like we can do today d> with .txt or .ini files. d> Sure a simple XML file is ok, but try, for example, editing the d> Microsoft IIS metabase files for Windows 2003 which are now in XML. These files are not meant to be edited by humans. The XML structures used here are intended only to be edited by machine so they are constructed to match the objects and concepts that make the programming task easier with no consideration of a human editor. An XML based configuration for Declude could be made much more friendly. As for node checking, in practice this would be no more difficult than the editing that is done now... consider a test line with 7 or so fields - some of them optional. When you edit one of these you usually just follow the convention you remember and use the surrounding lines as a reference. It would be no different in a well designed XML format. _M --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
