Opinions on SMF

[Luca Ferrari]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:44 PM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:
> On 8/27/2013 13:20, Petr Janda wrote:
>>>>      Personally, I think smf manifests being in XML(i dislike) may be a
>>>> problem with many users who
>>>>      are  not used to reading and writing XML files.
>>>
>>>
>>> That's one of the things I hated on SMF!
>>> But I guess the configuration can be easily translated from XML to
>>> text and vice-versa.
>>
>> C'mon, XML isn't that bad :)
>
> No, it isn't.  I don't know where all this anti-XML sentiment came from,
> but it's certainly fashionable lately.
>


In my opinion it is!
Or better, XML is a great (unfinished) language, but it forces you to
have parsers and dom trees around in case you need to automate
document handling. And this is not the way a Unix admin is used to do,
at least in my opinion: cat, grep, sed and alike are not very suited
at handling xml in a comfortable way (not saying they cannot cope with
xml).

Luca