Re: new sysinstall

[Sander Vesik <sander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:58:02 +0200
> Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> XML merely marks up a bunch of data.  You'd need the appropriate
>> parsers and DTDs to make it 'understand' the contents and even then
>> you only get tokens.
> 
> Right; what I'm saying is, that if there is a DTD for "OS configuration
> information", or if there's one in the works, then that's a strong
> reason for DFBSD's installer to use XML - so data can be interchanged.

Makingthere be such a dtd (relaxng schema would actually be better) is
simple to make happen. 

> 
> If there isn't, then I can't think of a strong reason to use XML, only
> some relatively weak ones.
> 
> -Chris

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	Sander

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