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Simon St.Laurent writes: > Has anyone started work on a standard DTD for preference files, or > is the expectation that everyone's going to do their own > differently? It seems like something that might be useful, > especially in the context of some of the browser development issues > that have been discussed here lately. > > If anyone knows of an existing one and wants to promote it, I'm > writing a chapter... The current material uses a custom-built > preference file, but I'd like to generalize it. It sounds like a good application of RDF, if you're a believer. Actually, one of the problems is that a generalised document type will always mean more work than a customised one. For example, it might be easier for users to understand <netscape-config> <security> <allow-cookies>no</allow-cookies> <enable-javascript>no</enable-javascript> </security> </netscape-config> than <config type="netscape> <section> <title>Security</title> <boolean-option> <name>allow-cookies</name> <value>no</value> </boolean-option> <boolean-option> <name>enable-javascript</name> <value>no</value> </boolean-option> </section> </config> On the other hand, it's easier to write reusable software that deals with the second case. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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