[Gllug] [OT] Advice for cheap hotel somewhere around the Barbican?

[Robert McKay]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 tet at accucard.com wrote:

> >I keep thinking I have to have a play with Jabber.  I was very impressed by
> >the sound of it after hearing the talk at Fosdem...

> Jabber serves one real purpose, which is to demonstrate almost all of
> the possible abuses of XML in one single app. Just MHO, of course, but
> an app like Jabber has no business using anything XML related in any
> way, shape or form, let alone using it for config files. Bleugh!

> Tet

I'd dispute that.. config files are one of the most useful places to use
XML.. firstly it saves having to write your own parser, and secondly it
saves other people trying to copy your parser for writing graphical (or
otherwise) configuration tools. If more software used XML for
configuration maybe we'd have less instances where people write
configuration tools that treat config files as "write only media"; storing
their settings in an external file or database and then just blindly
clobbering any settings entered into the config file directly.

-Robert.



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