Re: Help Needed
Liam Quin <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:55:19AM -0400, pDale wrote: > While this should be off-topic (not about XML), let us take this opportunity > to say again, just in case anyone doesn't know: > > Do not use XML files for program configuration! Let's not say such silly things. > To use something like Windows INI files (before MS did a thing worse than > XML for config and created the Registry), use the Perl module Config::STD. Or use XML::Simple and you get an XML configuration file that can be edited with any XML tool, instead of needing proprietary Microsoft tools (or error-prone text editors). Or to be fairer... there's no single best answer, so maybe it's best to try to avoid categorical statements. The important thing really is to avoid making up your own format with its own syntax (as Apache has for example). If your program is used with XML a lot, and the configuration file will mostly be edited by people familiar with XML, then an XML configuration file may make perfect sense. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ _______________________________________________ Perl-XML mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs