The nagios config file format is simple but elegant and human-readable.
Not qualities that XML shares, alas.
Not to say that XML doesn't have its uses.
Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brodie, R (Richard) [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 06 June 2003 09:49
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-devel] Nagios 2 Configuration Files
>
>
> > A proposal for the status dtd was floated, but no comments
> were received..
>
> I was looking at it recently, and playing around with
> reforming it as an XML
> Schema; mainly as a learning exercise. Unless anyone else is
> keen to take it
> up sooner, I'll post it here so we can revive the discussion.
>
> I'm still not entirely convinced (yet) about XML as a
> configuration file
> format for hand editing though. Most folk don't have/use XML
> validating
> editors.
>
> Richard Brodie
>
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> Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
>
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