begin quoting Michael O'Keefe as of Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 02:30:03PM -0700: [snip] > We've had "win.ini" config file formats for years in the testing group > and they are a PITA for anything other than simple configurations. > Arrays and complex structures are ridiculous in the "win.ini" format
Indeed. But for simple configuration, they're pretty damn good. XML goes the other way... for simple configurations, it's ridiculously complicated. And most configuration is key-value -- so you end up using simple XPath expressions to get the data you want, which puts you back into the key-value world, which makes XML just another layer of complexity. Use the right tool for the job, rather than forcing one tool to be used everywhere for everything. -- I still haven't found a good justification for mandating network access. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
