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		thesuperbigfrog on April 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Configs suck? Try a real programming language >> So in the end you come up with so many approaches to express similar structures. Expressiveness and flexibility are good so that you can define configuration to meet the needs of the system or application you are building. XML Schema, Relax NG, etc. can be used to specify how the XML configuration should be structured, limits on data types, required versus optional configuration items. As I said before, XML gets a lot of flack for being verbose, ugly, and complicated, but it is mature, widely-supported, and might be worth considering depending on your needs.

benibela on April 6, 2020 [–]

Some parts are extremly ugly, and mostly pointless. namespaces, doctype, processing instructions.

This is well-formed xml and good way to confuse people:

     <?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE abc[<?abc >]]<abc><abc/>]>>?>]><?x?><a/><?x <(x)>>?>

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