On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Jesper Dahl Nyerup wrote: > On Jun 24 11:09, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> >> You mention many of the same concerns I have, or had. >> >> Did you also have a look at David's proposal? I guess it got lost in the >> vast amount of mail. I have uploaded it to >> >> http://www.rsyslog.com/download/david_rsyslog.conf >> >> I think this problem is actually human readable and writable. >> >> What do you think? > > I actually read David's proposal just after i sent my message, and > there's no doubt that this example looks nicer. But that doesn't change > my opinion on what XML should be used for, and what it shouldn't. > > I think XML is a great format for simple, diplomatic RPC-mechanisms > between systems that need a common understanding of what's valid data > and what isn't. I think it's great for my XMPP client talking to my XMPP > server, and I even think it's great for representing web pages. > > What I don't think XML should be used for, is mainly being edited by > people (me, anyway) on systems that doesn't provide an editing > functionality that aids the user sufficiently in regards to format, > semantics as well as the actual content. > > If some package maintainer from one of the systems I use, decides to > create a tool to automatically configure rsyslog, and this tool decides > to omit most whitespaces from its generated output, as this is valid > XML, the result would be unusable, at best. > > I know this scenario may be a bit emphasised, and certainly wouln't > happen upstream, but the downsides of XML, being a markup language > suitable for automatic interaction, makes it unfit for the purpose of > config files.
aren't there pretty-printer tools for xml that could be used to reformat the file if needed? > This is why I would prefer a format that by design and specification > enforces read- and writability. please re-write the example config in the format of your choice so that we can understand how that format would look. David Lang _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
