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...
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