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.


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