Re: XML and GNOME community

[Sergio <ser perio unlp edu ar>]

> Just one point, XML files are definitely not intended for human 
consumption
>I mean that trying to edit them by hand would be a disaster. Basically
>XML would be fine to store internal state, but not for configuration files
>where the user may have to modify them. Forgot an ending tag or misspell
>it and the whole config file will be lost since XML requires well formed
>documents.

You could have a generic chkconfig somefile.cfg that simply check
if the file is well formed, but not do any interpretation, no ?

Sergio Kessler