Re: Bloat: XML, GUI design (was: Re: [OT] Gnome configuration (was: Re: Congrats! [gnome font rendering]))

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

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* Emile van Bergen [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 01:24:04PM]:

> I think it would be much better to use filesystem directories to
> represent such a tree structure and with short files as the "attributes"
> which would contain a single value each of whatever data type, to do
> that.

There are still some cases (back-end applications) where XML does make
sence, much more than common config files or the usage of filesystem
that you suggest. For example, I planned (though frozen yet) a rewritte
of kernel-package that would use XML to register parts of
kernel-building system[1]. XML gives you some freedom when specifying
lots of metadata, valid for some range of values, without becomming too
confusing for the maintainers of the kpart packages.

[1] http://people.debian.org/~blade/kernel-builder/Specs/

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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