new sysinstall

Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Tue Sep 2 00:53:46 PDT 2003


On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:58:02 +0200
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai at xxxxxx> wrote:

> XML merely marks up a bunch of data.  You'd need the appropriate
> parsers and DTDs to make it 'understand' the contents and even then
> you only get tokens.

Right; what I'm saying is, that if there is a DTD for "OS configuration
information", or if there's one in the works, then that's a strong
reason for DFBSD's installer to use XML - so data can be interchanged.
 
If there isn't, then I can't think of a strong reason to use XML, only
some relatively weak ones.

-Chris





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