Idea for FreeBSD
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Fri Aug 8 10:19:55 UTC 2008
Alex Kozlov <spam at rm-rf.kiev.ua> writes:
> Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
> > [...] XML itself is too general-purpose: it has too much baggage
> > designed for its primary function of facilitating interoperation
> > between diverse systems in different zones of control, none of which
> > is particularly applicable to system startup.
> While in general I agree with You, I must note that We already have
> xml parser (expat 1.95) for geom. See /lib/libbsdxml.so*
Non sequitur. The fact that we have an XML parser in base does not make
XML more (or less) suitable for the task.
DES
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