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- From: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>
- To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:07:01
At 18:01 26/06/98 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
>
>While holding the configuration file in XML has some
>self-referential elegance, I'm not sure how we solve the
>bootstrapping problem of parsing an XML file in order to
>discover what parser to use!
I have a default parser which can read this stuff and then the user can
decide whether they want to choose another one...
>
>Better here, I think, to use the simple keyword=value format
>defined by java:
>
>parser.AElfred=com.microstar.xml.SAXDriver
>parser.xp=com.jclark.xml.sax.Driver
>preferred.parser=xp
If this is already parsed by Java I am happy to use it. But for structured
things like menus we definitely want XML.
P.
Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic
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