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Re: a debconf backend db finally...



> > For XML-dislikers, the whole syntax is horrendous.
> > For XML-likers, it's perfectly natural.
> 
> It's never that simple. I use xml for what it was designed for (see the
> debconf documentation), and am simply not interested in participating in
> the make-everything-xml fad.

 SGML was the one designed for written docs. XML was designed to be an
easily parseable, hierarchical general data format.
 You were talking about needing hierachy, that's why I thought of XML.

 But I didn't want to piss you off, if you are the coder, you are the
chooser.



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