XML/XSD based configuration files.

[George Staikos]

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 11:45, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 December 2004 14:47, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > From the buzzword-department.
> >
> > See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94611
> >
> > Anyone interested in looking into this? I most certainly do not want to
> > *switch* configuration formats, but I think it's a viable strategy to
> > offer an alternative configuration format to our users with great
> > marketing potential.
>
> ( 1. Don't get  language-religious; 2. Don't get religious; 3. I'm not
> saying I'm right, and go for the big pictures)
>
> I have no particular opinion on the KConfig side, but the concept put in a
> general perspective -- to use XML -- is very interesting. I think that not
> using XML for anything data related(with exceptions) is equivalent to
> hitting oneself with a brick. Unfortunately we still do it, and it will
> take long before the "aha" goes through the audience at large, I think.

    Do you realize how slow it is to parse this stuff relative to our current 
format?  I've been doing lots of Kst profiling lately and XML parsing is a 
huge factor for us.  I'm glad we don't use XML for KConfig natively.

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George Staikos
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