On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 16:32, Chipzz wrote: > On 30 Apr 2003, Michael Meeks wrote: > > Why are you trying to edit thousands of xml files mainly inside your > > .gconf dirs ? > > You may not want to edit them, but suppose you (or a bug in a program) > somehow screwed up your configuration. Then you could do: > > mv .gconf .gconf-old > gnome-session & > diff -ur .gconf-old .gconf > > and see what went wrong (which settings are actually different). > THAT is an advantage of human-readable formats, not that you can edit > them. IIRC, in xml you can tell that some tags may safely ignore spacing or that some tags may not ignore spacing or both of it at the same time (but I don't know for certain which is true -- if any --, and I'll rely on the word of Daniel for that). The whole purpose of XML e having human readable extensible structured info, isn't it? If we make it very hard for humans to read it, then what's the purpose of XML? Yet Another Format [albeit extensible]? I think that in the case of gconf only very specific tags will need to be aware of spacing issues, other than that, I can only see advantages in having it easy to read with mine human eyes... (the bionic update still hasn't arrived through DHL). Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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