Generally using xml instead of ini format would allow many things
-different ini sections for different sapis
-different ini sections for different users
-maybe inclusion of subscripts (db admin may change only database parts..)
-maybe different ini sections for different webservers if we can
I have started writing an app which helps (mainly win32, new) users to
generate config files correctly to prevent glaring security holes on
production servers.
I started by using parse_config_file(), but this ends up causing problems
because it strips comments. This means that some variables
