On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Andre Lorbach wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards >> Sent: Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010 17:42 >> To: rsyslog-users >> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] feedback requested: NEW rsyslog.conf format -- XML? >> >>>>> I agree that it is a little more difficult to read, but I don't >>> think >>>>> it becomes much more verbose. >>>> >>>> more difficult to read is a bad thing in and of itself. >>> >>> I agree, for readability your approach is more user friendly. But if I >>> also think from the parsing point of view, a generic format is easier >>> to handle internally. >> >> Andre, here I am not really in the same boat with you. I initially had > similar >> concerns, but I don't see why this would complicate things (especially if > you >> have a static set of entities). Am I overlooking something? > > Maybe it is because I am already seeing the additional code which needs to be > written when using dedicated xml-nodes for each input type instead of having > one input XML-tag with a type parameter, which does not necessarily needs to > be called "type". I have read the comments about using a XML DTD, but if we > are going to use the format for multiple applications, it could become > difficult to maintain a common version of the XML DTD. > > So the question is, is it that much more human read-/use- able to use > "<imtcp..." instead of "<im type=tcp..." or "<im id=tcp..."?
other than sharing an XML parsing library, how much overlap is there really between the configs of the different apps you are looking to use? I do this sort of think in some utilities that I have written for internal use, and I find that the configs are enough different that all the logic (after the initial parsing) ends up being different for every app anyway, so it's just easier for me to say 'is there a tag X under this tag Y' as it would be to say 'is there a tag X with attribute Y under this tag Z' most of the work with XML that I do is in perl, and there I use XML::Simple which transforms the XML document into a memory structure (hashes of arrays of (hashes of arrays)) that I just look for what I'm interested in. David Lang _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
