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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>
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Subject: Re: Kernel Config datafile...
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In the last episode (Dec 12), Jonathan Mini said:
> 
>    I was thinking about using SGML actually, but I hadn't got that far. We'll
> see about whether or not it turns out to be the easiest format to deal with.
> I think it might. For example :
> 
> <option class=vfs name=msdosfs>
> 	<desc>MDSDOS FAT Filesystem</desc>
> 	<man section=4 name="msdosfs">
> </option>

The web server Roxen uses a similar format for its configuration files. 
I don't know if it's truly SGML, or just easy for the web server to
parse..  For example, here's a snippet from the part of the file that
enables user directories:

 <region name='userfs#0'>
  <var name='dir'>                <str>/public_html/</str> </var>
  <var name='put'>                <int>0</int> </var>
  <var name='mountpoint'>         <str>/~</str> </var>
  <var name='banish_list'>        
   <a>
     <str>root</str>
     <str>daemon</str>
     <str>bin</str>
     <str>sys</str>
   </a>
  </var>
 </region>

Every tag has an open and a close tag, <var name=""> defines a variable
name, and the data inside defines its type.  <a></a> is an array
container.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com