Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:17:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:17:04 -0500 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]:62636 "EHLO mailout03.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:16:51 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Tim Jansen To: Jakob =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8stergaard=20?= Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:19:39 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] In-Reply-To: <160S2o-1JXpD6C@fmrl05.sul.t-online.com> <20011104195955.K14001@unthought.net> In-Reply-To: <20011104195955.K14001@unthought.net> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <160Skz-1rDDSyC@fmrl05.sul.t-online.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 04 November 2001 19:59, you wrote: > The idea is that if the userland application does it's parsing wrong, it > should either not compile at all, or abort loudly at run-time, instead of > getting bad values "sometimes". All the XML parser interfaces that I have seen so far allow you to do things that will cause the code to fail when you do stupid things or are not prepared that there may appear unknown elements. Or you use a DTD, and then your code is guaranteed to fail after a change, which may be even worse. One-value-files are a noticable exception, you must be VERY stupid if your code breaks because of an additional file. bye... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/