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From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>
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On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 10:51:27AM -0700, Jack Rusher wrote:
>   Was that motivational enough?  Seriously, I'll go looking for
> something like this.  It would be awfully nice if we started to work
> towards a common parser for all configuration files, package files, etc,
> etc.  XML seems like the right answer for this.

Sort of.  You still need to write the DTDs, which is the harder part.

N
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