Re: [Erlyaws-list] yaws 2.0 - XML config file format ?

[Toby T. <to...@sm...>]

On 24-Apr-07, at 3:24 AM, Stefan Scholl wrote:

> Claes Wikstrom <kl...@ta...> wrote:
>> ju...@pr... wrote:
>>> I'm extremely underwhelmed with Apache style configuration files  
>>> that
>>> appear to be loosely based on XML but quite clearly are not valid  
>>> XML.
>>
>> I completely agree, config file should be proper XML
>
> I disagree, unless the config file is written by a tool. In the
> Unix world most config files are edited with a text editor. XML
> is messy.
>
> Reading XML is OK when you want to debug some XML based protocol,
> but for config files it's a bad choice.

Agree, if said files are to be written by humans.

>
>
> ejabberd uses Erlang terms, which is also a bad choice, because
> the target groups aren't Erlang programmers. For yaws this could
> be OK. Or maybe something like the INI files from the Windows
> world.

Apache's syntax is already far more expressive than INI.

--Toby

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