Niclas Hedhman schrieb:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 08:08, Raffael Herzog wrote:
> >  Very short: Do structured
> > Text (e.g. XML) to Java mapping using Annotations.
>
> What are you think in this area?
>
> Perhaps you know I am not to crazy about XML, especially hand-edited
> one, but since you say "e.g.", I am curious...

"e.g." means: The current concept is still centered on XML. But it 
doesn't have to. Currently, it gets informed about start of an element, 
end of an element, some attribute to an element, and textual content of 
an element. This is perfectly matched with XML, but already kept 
somewhat generic.

XML as configuration language has several sides:

1. It's very well processible by machines, but still human readable to a 
certain extent.

2. It's a very ugly and uncomfortable syntax for human beings.

3. Due to 1., 2. is only partially an issue, because you've got very 
good tool support.

The idea is very young right now and the concept centered on handling 
XML. But, actually, I myself would really like to see some nicer syntax 
than XML for Silk configuration files myself, I'm completely open 
there. But the goal is still: It has to be easy to use, for both the 
users and the developers.

cu,
   Raffi

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