On Tuesday 22 January 2002 04:31, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 2 o'clock on Jan 22, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> > I'd also write /etc/X11/fonts/TTF...
>
> Ok, now that I believe I can preserve whitespace in those spots, I've
> redone things as follows:
I think that
Times
Times Ne
Around 12 o'clock on Jan 22, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> I strongly agree. XML is an abdomination and practically all people who
> think that XML is the solution to their problem have neither understood
> XML nor their problem.
While XML does currently enjoy perhaps too much popularity, I submit that
Around 7 o'clock on Jan 22, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Writing a parser for a well-designed language is a trivial exercice,
> whether you use yacc/lex or write it by hand (as Real Men do). I
> don't think that giving up the elegance of a human-readable language
> for the perceived convenience
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote on 2002-01-22 07:57 UTC:
> KP> I've decided to give XML a try and see how it looks; [...]
> Keith, please, don't.
I strongly agree. XML is an abdomination and practically all people who
think that XML is the solution to their problem have neither understood
XML nor their
Keith Packard writes:
> please let me know if using
> libxml is a bad idea; it seems a bit easier to use than expat.
expat, with its SAX like API. is easier to use if you want to parse
XML files which don't obey a precise schema/DTD, or if you absolutely
need to process elements of the file befo
Keith Packard:
KP> I have an opportunity to redefine the configuration language [...]
KP> I've decided to give XML a try and see how it looks; [...]
Keith, please, don't.
The former configuration language was human-readable and human-
writeable. This is not the case of your new XML thingie.
Around 2 o'clock on Jan 22, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> I'd also write /etc/X11/fonts/TTF...
Ok, now that I believe I can preserve whitespace in those spots, I've
redone things as follows:
Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamCompaq Cambridge Research Lab
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 01:16, Giovanni Pensa wrote:
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> I'd write Times New Roman.
I'd also write /etc/X11/fonts/TTF...
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Around 1 o'clock on Jan 22, Giovanni Pensa wrote:
> I simply love Lisp in XML. Lisp people really hate it.
I felt it would be better to use XML for expressions than embed a separate
expression parser in the upper levels.
> There has been a long debate on Attributes vs. Elements. I think tha
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 00:00, Keith Packard wrote:
> I've decided to give XML a try and see how it looks; other applications
> have started migrating to this for configuration and it has a lot of
> appeal.
Nice idea.
>
> value CDATA #REQUIRED>
I'd write 123 and Foo bar.
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In migrating the font configuration mechanism out of Xft and into a
separate library, I have an opportunity to redefine the configuration
language to make it easier for external agents to parse and modify.
I've decided to give XML a try and see how it looks; other applications
have started mi
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