Re: XML as a standard UNIX config file format (Re: Caldera installation - something Debian should learn)

[Amos Shapira <amos@gezernet.co.il>]

On Fri, April 23 1999, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
|XML is not a trivial item to parse. It is also a pure data holding environ.
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|sendmail uses m4 which has macro and other programming ability.  You would hav
|e
|to parse the xml, then run it thru an m4 type thing.

The point is that if you agree on such a widely accepted standard (and
XML IS very widely accepted) then you can build on well-testted tools
(API's, validating editors) and don't have to do the parsing yourself.

Cheers,

--Amos

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