Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Re: Unzip module

[Richard J. <ri...@an...>]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 10:49:59PM +0200, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> Well, we've been talking before about adding a module in order to save
> config or data informations in a persistent storage (such as a file) but we
> couldn't agree on which was best. IMHO we need a hierarchical format with
> some structural semantics and a minimum of typing , all of that storable in
> an text only user editable format. XML would be enough even if not best
> before it's widely use and easy to interface with other programming language
> for data exchanges. I think CDB is not enough powerful - although
> convenient - so that we reach an agreement on it.

I think it's been mentioned before, but just for completeness, YAML
(http://www.yaml.org/) is looking like a good choice in this area.  Of
course, someone would need to step forward and write the parser, which
isn't going to be me at the moment ...

Rich.

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