On 4/18/02 at 8:04 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 22:48, David Douthitt wrote:
> This sounds like XML metadata to me. > > > ...and with the following requirements: > > > > * Expandability (add tags at will) > > XML can handle this. And can it handle a tag that it's never seen before? > > * Robustness (unknown tags don't matter) > > I believe XML can handle this, if structured properly. > > > * Ability to be used on an LRP system > > * Analyzed by shell code > > Please explain the necessity for these two requirements? The latter of the two is implied by the former. It seems like a perfect use for a leaf system to be able to fire up boa and access LRP packages from web or from proftp. I already had created a CGI that served up any package currently loaded on the system, and created the package on the fly for downloading. > > * Simple > > XML metadata files are simple text files with structure. I > agree that a CSV file is easier to read. > > > To me, that all works against XML. > > Only the LEAF system and shell requirements are problems for XML > metadata. > > What was your opinion of CSV (comma separated values)? I'm not keen on that either. Maybe I'm influenced by my RPM bias - but a file of: Tag: <value> Tag: <value> Tag: <value> Seems good enough to me. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
