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Re: [paragui-users] Why use XML for configuration?
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Teunis Peters |
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Re: [paragui-users] Why use XML for configuration? |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:57:26 -0700 (PDT) |
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Asko Kauppi wrote:
>
> Cast me stones (rather, tomatoes..? ;) but why does/should ParaGui use
> XML for configuration?
>
> Imho, something like Lua does the job of (dynamic) configuration
> better. It doesn't have configuration / programming split. It's all
> both. Better than XML. Better than (shell) scripts. Better than
> anything?
personally I wanted to use XML for CONTROLLING paragui. For remote
calling, subprogs and the like. Lua's not much use for that.
besides XML is standard. And I suspect the gentleman that put it in to
begin with was Under Orders From Above.
Also ParaGUI has a standing rule (since the addition of XML) of MINIMAL
outside dependancies....
expat's acceptable.
I don't know why but libxml2/libxslt isn't
and pango (I started writing a driver) is most definitely not... *sigh*
I guess you could say - Why not? XML can do the job of embedding
information quite nicely. It's standard, it's extendable, and by and
large it's fairly simple. Pretty much any language can read/write it and
it doesn't restrict nationality/whatever.
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis, who's now writing docs in TeX as nothing else seems up
to handling mixtures of five or more languages with mathematics as well...
- Re: [paragui-users] Wishlist, (continued)
Re: [paragui-users] Don't R.I.P., ParaGUI :'(, I . S . Kuten, 2003/07/24
- Re: [paragui-users] Don't R.I.P., ParaGUI :'(, Teunis Peters, 2003/07/24
- Re: [paragui-users] Don't R.I.P., ParaGUI :'(, Antony Shaleynikov, 2003/07/25
- Re: [paragui-users] Don't R.I.P., ParaGUI :'( (now dynamic loading), Teunis Peters, 2003/07/25
- [paragui-users] Why use XML for configuration?, Asko Kauppi, 2003/07/25
- Re: [paragui-users] Why use XML for configuration?, Roger D. Vargas, 2003/07/25
- [paragui-users] text fields?, leiavoia, 2003/07/25
Re: [paragui-users] Why use XML for configuration?,
Teunis Peters <=
Re: [paragui-users] Why use XML for configuration?, Asko Kauppi, 2003/07/26
Re: [paragui-users] Why use XML for configuration?, Mark Junker, 2003/07/26
Re: [paragui-users] Don't R.I.P., ParaGUI :'(, Eric Ross, 2003/07/24
Re: [paragui-users] Don't R.I.P., ParaGUI :'(, Michael Bartl, 2003/07/25