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fre 2001-12-07 klockan 22.39 skrev Daniel Robbins: |
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> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:28:05PM +0100, Sebastian Werner wrote: |
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> > Why not XML... it's really nice to edit i think |
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> Because XML requires a whole new bloated, slow parser, and the python |
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> parser is fast and the syntax is lean and mean. Also, if we port to |
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> C, it would be more effective to support "python-style" dictionary |
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> definitions that include and entire XML parser. Also consider that |
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> XML has no equivalent of python dictionaries. |
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Actually parsing with libxml is really fast. But I agree, using XML in |
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these files makes no sense. It will make our basesystem depend on |
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libxml2 which I don't think it should. |
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Regards, |
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Mikael Hallendal |
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Mikael Hallendal |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader |
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CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden |
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