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Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Idea for FreeBSD
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Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua> writes:
> Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
> > [...]  XML itself is too general-purpose: it has too much baggage
> > designed for its primary function of facilitating interoperation
> > between diverse systems in different zones of control, none of which
> > is particularly applicable to system startup.
> While in general I agree with You, I must note that We already have
> xml parser (expat 1.95) for geom. See /lib/libbsdxml.so*

Non sequitur.  The fact that we have an XML parser in base does not make
XML more (or less) suitable for the task.

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