[haiku] Re: Network transfer, one Haiku machine to another ?

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:55, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Haven't thought about it, but the only difference I see is that attributes
> are even more complicated to edit manually than XML.

But of course there's going to be a GUI for that, right?

I'll admit that this is my dislike for using XML for purposes other
than markup speaking (see
http://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html, but I kind of
tend to agree with everything Eric writes on whatever subject :)). XML
is not a configuration file format. XML is hardly a general data
exchange format, either. Yet nowadays (thanks to J2EE?) that's what
it's been used for the most, and tragically enough there are still
plenty of invalid (X)HTML on the web tripping any browser that's not
MSIE. And on the odd chance that a non-IE browser can parse it, it's
at the cost of code bloat working around MSIE's lack of... everything?

But I digress.

The gist is, with attributes we don't have to depend on an external or
hand-coded parser for the file format. With everything else we do.

>> Can symlinks hold attributes of their own?
> Yes.

*Nice.*

>> Seems that addattr can't do
>> it, at least.
> Missing feature.

Hmmm... :D Looks like my plate got yet another nugget of "interesting"
I'm willing to munch. I'll look into it.


Cheers,
A.

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