Re: sysinst split project - The Configuration File
matthew sporleder <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:56:44PM +0100, Volker A. Brandt wrote: >> Alexander Nasonov writes: >> > David Young wrote: >> > > Use XML for the configuration. That ensures that the configuration is >> > > queryable/transformable with NetBSD's forthcoming xmltools. >> > >> > I wouldn't recommend XML route. Write a user-friendly lua script >> > instead. >> >> How many people know XML? How many people know lua? >> >> How many tools can process XML? How many tools can "process" lua? > > Can you write programs in XML? > Of course you can, but why would you want to when every programming language is so good at processing them already? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:XML-based_programming_languages See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLazlo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMML