From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 27 11:26: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B1F37B719 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:25:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2RJPc036704; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:25:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: bright@wintelcom.net Cc: DougB@DougBarton.net, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: configuration files In-Reply-To: <20010327021100.V9431@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010327004317J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3AC06153.EEBF632E@DougBarton.net> <20010327021100.V9431@fw.wintelcom.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010327112538N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:25:38 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 13 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > And thus the point of XML is realized... > A solution for a problem that doesn't exist. :) And that's a statement made more for amusement value than a representation of actual fact. XML is a solution for a lot of problems and it's already been widely deployed on a lot of them. It's not XML's fault that people have attempted to use it for things it is _not_ well suited for ("when all you have is a hammer...") and whether or not it's suitable for the stuff currently under discussion is less relevent than whether or not people can agree on ANY representational format that isn't exactly the same as what we're using now. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message