On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:55:22 -0600 (CST) "D. Hageman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > So what are the "technical" advantages of XML in this case? > > Quick List -- > > *) Text Based - easy to edit. Text based does NOT imply easy to edit. look at USBsnopys' output. its completely illegible. > *) Well known basic format (think each tag must be ended, etc.) Not a valid argument. no two schemas are alike. > *) Million and one tools already exist that handle XML if you didn't > want to edit by hand. Way more code than necessary. bloat. > *) Every major programming language has some library to handle XML > (say if you hacked togther a library that does the XF86Config file > format ... this wouldn't be the case). Irrelevant in this case. > *) Extensible, no painting ourselves into a corner. One can easily > extend the spec without having to rewrite the entire parser. Also irrelevant. the USERS will never need to do this. The parser is also non-trivial. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
