Re: [email] Re: XML was RE: [GD-General] RE: A portable preferences library

[Dan T. <da...@ar...>]

Overkill - agreed :).

However, one thing I think it has over basic text files is it has an
inherent ability to represent trees of data, whereas its more difficult (but
not impossible) to put that into a basic var=data; type ini file.

-Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Hook" <ho...@py...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 8:29 PM
Subject: [email] Re: XML was RE: [GD-General] RE: A portable preferences
library


> 1. Because developers are already using XML and have since thrown
> away, forgotten or don't want to write a parser.

This presumes that the developer is going to use some third party XML
parser, right?


> 3. People (or users) could theoretically seek help from the myriad
> of books available in how to cusotmize their preferences.

Hmmm, pretty iffy, that.

> 4. Very extensible.

..which is of questionable practical value if all you need is a
simple text format.

Not trying to be antagonistic, just trying to understand the issues =)

Brian




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