Re: [paragui-users] Why use XML for configuration?

[Teunis Peters]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Asko Kauppi wrote:

>
> Cast me stones (rather, tomatoes..? ;) but why does/should ParaGui use
> XML for configuration?
>
> Imho, something like Lua does the job of (dynamic) configuration
> better. It doesn't have configuration / programming split. It's all
> both. Better than XML. Better than (shell) scripts. Better than
> anything?

personally I wanted to use XML for CONTROLLING paragui.  For remote
calling, subprogs and the like.  Lua's not much use for that.

besides XML is standard.  And I suspect the gentleman that put it in to
begin with was Under Orders From Above.

Also ParaGUI has a standing rule (since the addition of XML) of MINIMAL
outside dependancies....
expat's acceptable.
I don't know why but libxml2/libxslt isn't
and pango (I started writing a driver) is most definitely not... *sigh*

I guess you could say - Why not?   XML can do the job of embedding
information quite nicely.  It's standard, it's extendable, and by and
large it's fairly simple.   Pretty much any language can read/write it and
it doesn't restrict nationality/whatever.

G'day, eh? :)
        - Teunis, who's now writing docs in TeX as nothing else seems up
to handling mixtures of five or more languages with mathematics as well...