The other argument for an XML based file is that it means that DTD's and/or
schema's can be used to validate correctness and reduce the incidence
of broken config files making your system unusable (while at least permitting
manual editing if needed). Building YACL without this properly (yet another
configuration language) at this date seems stupid (though I'll be the
first to admit I'm not fond of angle brackets myself). I'm tired
of mistakes in config files (like the XFree86 config file, one of my
personal "love to hate" files) making my machine unusable.
But Keith's arguments are based on first hand real experience of the last
year. Some safely extensible format needs to exist, and this avoids
reinventing many wheels... We get validatability along the way....
- Jim
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
Compaq Computer Corporation
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