Re: sysinst split project - The Configuration File

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Manuel Bouyer 
<bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:56:44PM +0100, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
>> Alexander Nasonov writes:
>> > David Young wrote:
>> > > Use XML for the configuration.  That ensures that the configuration is
>> > > queryable/transformable with NetBSD's forthcoming xmltools.
>> >
>> > I wouldn't recommend XML route. Write a user-friendly lua script
>> > instead.
>>
>> How many people know XML?  How many people know lua?
>>
>> How many tools can process XML?  How many tools can "process" lua?
>
> Can you write programs in XML?
>

Of course you can, but why would you want to when every programming
language is so good at processing them already?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:XML-based_programming_languages

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLazlo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_Language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMML