[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Edward Wildgoose wrote:
> 
> <source>
>         <name>hotbird</name>
>         <type>sat</sat>
>         <diseqc_protocol>1.0</diseqc_protocol>
>         <lnb>1</lnb>
>         <card>1</card>
> </source>

That nicely outlines the reason why many people don't like XML:
It's hard to find the interesting information between all those tags.
And to add insult to injury the tag names appear twice for every
little piece of information. Emards proposal looked much nicer,
but...

> *****
> My opinion would be that you have a hierarchical set of data here, store it
> in a hierarchical format...  XML is one variation of this, but pick the
> variation which makes sense to you...
> *****

I would prefer a relational model.

Johannes


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