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Colinux is the first project I know of that has abandoned XML
config files because they were too unreadable and difficult
for users to maintain.

[They've gone back to just putting the command-line options
into a file! Not necessarily the best approach, but better than...]

Let's hope they are the first of many....

Happy New Year to all,

Martin

ron minnich wrote:

> On 12/21/06, Gorka guardiola <paurea@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks god XML made it so much more readable and
>> easy to write now. I was deeply scared by the one line
>> lack of structure :-).
>
>
> it was interesting to watch 300 bytes of xen config turn into 3000
> bytes of unreadable xml.
>
> "XML happens"
>