Bob La Quey wrote: > Standard off the shelf validating parser please. http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Key-value-file-parser.html
One of the top google searches for ``config file key value parser'' > I do not want my programmers wasting their time > writing parsers. Even simple ones are hard, if > one expects them to be reliable and handle flaky > inputs. > > I also want off the shell tools like XSLT to > produce html for reports. >From a config file? Or a data file? If you want DATA files - like for your .doc or whatever, feel free to use xml. Keep it away from the config files, please. People[1] actually need to USE the config files. > BTW, what do you call that? It is not an s-expression > is it? It is KEY VALUE. As in: KEY=VALUE. -john People, as in humans wth a tool like vi or notepad. Not programs, like Microsoft Word, or LyX. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
