From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-10-10T01:16:08+09:00
Subject: Re: XmlConfigFile usage


Now I get
"Brian Candler" <B.Candler@pobox.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20030228142429.A92246@linnet.org...
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:23:28PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > "Brian Candler" <B.Candler@pobox.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:20030227205352.A91492@linnet.org...
> > > > http://www.pault.com/pault/pxml/xmlalternatives.html
> >
> > Btw: I couldn't access this site (no DNS). Has anybody experienced the
> > same?
>
> Right now the DNS is OK (it maps to an IP) but the webserver is down:
>
> $ telnet www.pault.com 80
> Trying 66.33.50.162...
> telnet: connect to address 66.33.50.162: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

Yes, same for me.  I overlooked the statement DNS failed OR server down.
ping does work though.

> What I was trying to say is, the XML *spec* does not define any
particular
> "data centric" ways of working. I can have a very simple database (say
one
> table with rows of customers) and I can make up my own way of turning
this
> into XML; but someone else will have chosen a different way.

<snip type="example" language="XML" style="intermixed"/>
:-)

> > Personally I would model an XML schema for a hash different.
>
> That's the point - it's (unfortunately) a personal choice - even for
> something as simple as a hash.
>
> With YAML, it's defined for you: and therefore, it will interoperate with
> other YAML implementations, in the sense that a hash created on machine A
> will be turned into the same hash on machine B. It also defines ways of
> encoding common scalar data types, graph structures where the same object
> appears at several points, user-defined types, and so forth.

Ah, I see.  Thanks for clarifying!

    robert