[Config4gnu-developer] brainstorm of interfaces

[Jason L. <jl...@me...>]

Last night I thought more about what kinds of interface, i.e.
representations of the data, we might pursue. Here's  my list:

Document Object Model (DOM)
 - standardized by www.w3.org
 - provides a tree-structure view of the data
 - tailored towards representing XML documents
 - a editor based on DOM could be created, that could be useful for not only
configuration, but editing XML documents in general

LDAP
 - more of a network protocol, but it does define data structures
 - provides a tree-structure view of the data
 - each node has attributes
 - configuration editable by any LDAP-aware client

CORBA
 - object-based
 - things have properties and methods

ODBC
 - standard interface for relational database
 - table (rows and columns) view of data
 - configuration would be editable by any database application that supports
ODBC

Linux filesystem
 - directories+files view of data

GConf
 - Gnome specific
 - Windows registry-like view of data

I thought of more, including GnomeDB and gnome-vfs, but they are very
similar to items listed above. In addition I haven't investigated any KDE
specific technologies; I'm sure there are some.

What others are possible?

Jason