Re: [xml] XML for config files

[Trappel Martin <martin trappel ksengineers at>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Valenzuela [mailto:jvalenzuela dspfl com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [xml] XML for config files
> 
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Rick Jones wrote:
> (...)
> > then XML would be the way to go.
> 
> (...)
> as opposed to cooking up my own parser(wheel reinvention).
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason Valenzuela

XML and config files, a few thoughts:
* Never again will you have to worry if the string you write-back to the
config file contains some non-ascii characters.
* Someone want's to add some hierarchical info to the file? Works. You're
parser's already there.
* Yes, the DTD thing sound quite nice to me (although haven't used this
approach yet.)
* One thing I try to stick to: Only use attributes for the actual config
information, that way the file can always be pretty-print saved and it's no
problem for a human to edit.

Cheers, good luck :-)

best regards / mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Martin Trappel