Re: sysinst split project - The Configuration File

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Dec 14, 2009, at 11:24 PM, David Holland wrote:

>  3. Configuration should be done in a concise and legible format,
> such as key/value pairs, nested key/value pairs, columnar tables, or
> whatever. Since XML is content-free^W^W just syntax, any such sane
> format can easily be represented as XML. (As long as the data remains
> strictly hierarchical and isn't, say, graph-structured. But that's not
> likely to be a problem here.)

Right.  I tend to favor property lists for this ... but the prevalent format 
for those in modern times are the XML flavor.

-- thorpej