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Could you elaborate on that? My suggestion was not to replace text-based |
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configuration, just unify the formating of them... |
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I also believe that this is a perfect application for XML. It is still |
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text-based though. |
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Developers create a Schema that a configuration file must validate |
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against. Now for this to be usable, a Schema (or DTD) is developed that |
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their Schema must validate against. This uber Schema is formulated in a |
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way such that a configuration editor, adhering to the standard, can edit |
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any applications configuration in a secure and user friendly way without |
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"plugins" or modification. |
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In a way the Schema from the app is a generalized plugin that kind of |
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"implements" the configuration superclass... (for you OOProgrammers =) |
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-John |
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> If you want to replace all the text-based config files with something, now is |
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> not the time. Novell will probably port NDS from Netware onto SuSE. Chances |
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> are that they will want to try and re-establish NDS as a viable alternative |
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> to Microsoft's Active Directory, and they'll open NDS up to do so. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Stu |
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