Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES

From: Alexey Zelkin (phantom_at_FreeBSD.org.ua)
Date: 03/30/04

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    Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:56:44 +0300
To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>

    hi,

    On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:46:18AM +0000, Eivind Eklund wrote:
    > On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
    >
    > > At this point I would like to start some kind of discussion and listen for
    > > your ideas which features you'd like to see in application which will be
    > > handling these XMLs.
    >
    > I'd like to not have XML, please. XML is hard to read - there is way
    > too much repetition compared to content. If you have to change the

    You will be able to generate text-only LINT or NOTES and use old format
    for reading.

    > syntax, please use something more lightweight than XML (or make
    > absolutely sure we do not have to deal with the XML at the source level

    I do not see any point to invent any other formats in days when XML become
    de-facto standard for such kind of information.

    > in any way except when adding or removing devices/options to/from the
    > source tree.)

    You will need to modify XML file only, no source code intervention
    needed for any actions except adding new low-level features. But this
    is same way of intervention as changing config(8). 

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