Re: [twuug] Everything you hate about Windows?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:13:56PM -0500, Jeff Self wrote:

> I'd personally like to see config files be XML based. It may not be as 
> easy to edit by hand, but parsing is much easier.

Have you ever written an XML parser?  It's not easy at all, much harder
than parsing most simple text configuration files.

I'll agree that if you stick to a library already written, it's not hard.
There are some obvious advantages, but I hate to see it used unless you
really need highly structured configuration information.

I also have had trouble in situations where I need a shell script to
be able to read configuration data.  It's not fun to read that stuff.
You can do a lot with awk of course.  Helps dull the pain... :)

I suppose I should try to write at least a simple shell library for
XML, but it seems like a huge amount of work.  Might look at
Shelldorado and see if there is already something there.

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