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Paul J Collins sneakums at eircom.net
Mon Jul 31 14:19:55 PDT 2000


>>>>> "Monkey" == Monkey Master <monkeymaster at crackmonkey.org> writes:

    Monkey> begin  Paul J Collins quotation:
    >> WindowMaker keeps its metadata in NeXTstep-style proplists, which
    >> provide a nice combination of flexibility and structure; far more
    >> than a key-value database system.  There's always XML, of course.

    Monkey> AAAAAA!

Mind your throat, there.

    Monkey> Goddammit, why do people keep saying that XML is a good
    Monkey> configuration file format?  Just because it's ASCII
    Monkey> doesn't mean it's human-readable!  I mean, just look at
    Monkey> termcap!

Well, duh!  I didn't say anything about XML and human-readability.  I
didn't say it was good, or bad for that matter.  And it's not ASCII,
it's UTF-8 or UTF-16, or any other damn encoding you like.

I know it's as easy to use XML to make impenetrable config files as
any other format.  I simply commented on XML's existence, which is all
one needs to do these days, especially when you're in the room,
judging from your reaction.

    Monkey> You wanna know what XML config files will look like?  Go to
    Monkey> http://netscape.com and VIEW SOURCE.  

I find this more likely:

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  </registry>

    Monkey> Hell, I'd pick the samba INI files before I'd go with XML.
    Monkey> Scheeeit!

I wouldn't.  Only one level of nesting.

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