Re: XML as a standard UNIX config file format (Re: Caldera installation - something Debian should learn)
Daniel Martin <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu> writes:
> How about this as a start, then:
>
> Stage 1: Make it acceptable to have large number of things depend on
> libxml or libxmltok or some other xml parsing library - get perl's
> XML::Parser packaged if it isn't already. Perhaps this can be skipped
> if it takes too long; having many things use xml may cause this
> acceptance anyway.
Well, I think we need have someone package XML::Parser at any rate.
> Stage 2: Change all the _debian_specific_ tools to use XML, where
> possible.
> The best example would be something like dwww; I might also consider
> /etc/gpm.conf as a candidate for XML-ization, but I can't say that
> that makes a whole lot of sense. (having a shell script one can
> source in the /etc/init.d script is just too useful)
Let's just start with doc-base. I already have a design:
* multiple versions of document registration file formats, including
the current, 'legacy' format, also formats which include an
extension to debiandoc-sgml, an extended RFC822 style format, and
an XML format
* use dublin core metadata set
* make a large document metadata store in RDF
Anyone wanna help? Join debian-doc and volunteer.
I'm backlogged and it's been on my queue for a year. I'm still
interested in doing it, I just would appreciate some more hands
coding.
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