[Config4gnu-developer] XML specification (1st draft)

[Peter W. <wie...@we...>]

Hi!
AS I already said I'm trying to write docu about C4G and other
software and contribute some code for an abstract UI.

Your draft may help to cooperate with other conf software.

Thanks for adding HTML, because I'm not used to DocBook.

In my opinion, for the stated C4G goals you must listing the nodes and
properties in plain text as an explaining docu for humans (and in XML,
too, of course). So that you and other conf tool developers can
=09- discuss about a common naming system.
=09- use different naming systems with the C4G main C engine.
(Sooner or later you will have to publish the data XMLs in versions,
where new versions will sometimes have slight differences in the
naming system.)

Is there already some sort of general XML browser/displayer? It would
be not only useful for sys conf tools, but for nearly all XML
stuff. So I guess there must be such a thing. It could be utilized for
the UI.

Did I understand it right that the INI file example would belong to
the backend? Because I think in the middle layer should be only one
format, the C4G format. Justin mentions the same if I understand him
right.

Could the properties that Justin suggested be divided into optional
and neccessary? So that on some systems the optional ones can be
ignored (and C4G development can start without them and later add
them)?

Kind regards
Peter Wiehe