Hi,

I've been thinking about the XML configuration files in OpenDNSSEC… 

One thing that struck me while having a discussion about different formats, is 
why OpenDNSSEC has it's configuration files in the XML format? I understood 
that (at least one of) the design idea(s) behind it, was that other provision 
systems that use OpenDNSSEC as a backend should be able to generate/rewrite 
configuration to OpenDNSSEC. Is that a reality today, or was it just a pipe 
dream? :-)

As an OpenDNSSEC user, the configuration is unnecessarily filled with (too) 
much information, making it less readable. As a package maintainer, having to 
depend on libxml2 is not something that is positive, due to all security 
vulnerabilities that comes with libxml2.
 
I do understand that it would take time that could be spent on other things to 
rewrite this, and I wouldn't suggest that this should be on the roadmap for 
OpenDNSSEC 1.x. But maybe OpenDNSSEC 2.x could add support for less complicated 
configuration syntax?

Does anybody else feel the same way?

Re,
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