[Config4gnu-developer] Re: proposal for a syntax to identify a property

[Justin Y. <ju...@sk...>]

For whatever reason, I've still not received the last 2 emails from the
developer list, so this email might not be treated as a proper reply...
Hopefully this has fixed itself. 


I have 2 primary concerns about your naming scheme.  The first is
"metacharacters" (the . and /) which appear in the names of sections or
other things.  For example, in apache, a <virtualhost> block has as its
"name" either a domain name or an IP, both of which contain a period. 
Also, not all sections are in []'s as w/ ini-style files, so I'm
wondering whether the []'s in the path to the node is specific to
ini-style or applies to all formats?

Finally, what about nested sections?  For example, in apache, a
virtualhost block can have a directory block inside it.  So would the
path be:

/Apache/www.example.com//cgi-bin/.value ?

Note the double slash, since often <directory> blocks have names that
include slashes.

I'd say that this could be fixed by escaping the / and . characters,
since trying to find a weird enough character that would never be used
doesn't seem like a good choice...  or maybe it is, I don't know.

Justin
  
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