Hi, I am trying to design a software based on plugins-based architecture. So I looked at eclipse to see how to go about this.
I would like to know what is the reason behind choosing xml as the way for writing the plugin manifest file. An .ini file kind-of configuration is much simpler to write and is cheaper to parse. One reason that I could think of is, to check for mandatory elements (like say plugin-id) which can be easily compared by checking against a schema etc. So, can someone explain me why XML is chosen and how it is beneficial over a simple text file ? I am not subscribed to the list and so please add my address explicitly in your replies. Thanks. -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev
