On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, STEFFL, ERIK *Internet* (SBCSI) wrote: > the same concerns are for other types of config files, and at least if you > use XML you have various standard tools that are better tested than > special purpose parser IMHO XML parsers are no "better tested" than say, Apache's or sendmail's config system. My experience has been that XML parsers are not very robust nor ready for production use. You mileage may vary. If you don't believe me, mark up _War and Piece_ with XML. Mark up _Principia Mathematica_ while you're at it. Make sure you have graphics, math equations, and nested tables for good measure. Send it through any Open Source XML, XSL, and FO tool-chain. Watch the results and contemplate what would happen to your config file. Take a large, deeply nested config XML file and chop off the last 100 lines. Add some garbage in random places. (Files *do* get corrupted in the real world.) Run it through an XML parser. Then try the same thing using a non-XML config file system. Compare the results. I'm not trying to be uncivil... Just raising some concerns I have. -- kevin at kevindumpscore dot com
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Paul Davis
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- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Paul Winkler
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- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Tom
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- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Kevin Conder
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- RE: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... STEFFL, ERIK *Internet* (SBCSI)
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin s... Paul Davis
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin s... Kevin Conder
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Steve Harris
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Kevin Conder
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Paul Winkler
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Steve Harris
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Kevin Conder
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin s... Steve Harris
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Taybin Rutkin
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Steve Harris
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Taybin Rutkin
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] saving plugin settin... Steve Harris