Re: unreadable XML proplists from drvctl(8)

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, David Young wrote:
> > Why do we have a command that outputs XML proplists, without the
> > option of a human readable alternative?  When XML proplists were
> > introduced some years ago, we were promised that they would not be
> > exposed in user interfaces.  This seems to violate that promise.
>
> Is JSON a human-readable alternative?

Neatly indented JSON would be much better than an XML plist.  
A very long line of unindented JSON, or several lines of 
poorly-indented JSON, is hardly better than XML.

I agree with David Holland that a table, or something similar to 
the output from sysctl(8), would be best.

--apb (Alan Barrett)