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Subject: Re: /proc & xml data
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:20:45 +0100
From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
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> "MemTotal:  %8lu kB\n"
> to something like
> "<memtotal>%8lu kB</memtotal>\n"

The latter form offers no significant advantage over the former at
all - there is nothing that can be expressed as
 <name>value</name>
which can't also be expressed as
 name: value
or
 name=value
and the latter format is significantly easier to parse.

The only situation where XML really would be useful would be
some need of grouping, and this is done in /proc using directories.
(Which are also much easier to parse using existing standard tools.)

Olaf

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