On 2012-12-01 10:16:54 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:18:04AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > At least for Perl, I can't see anything related to validation. > > That's because validating an ini file is trivially easy: > > the line is a comment line, which must start with a # after optional > whitespace, > or it is a section header, where all data must be surrounded by [], > or it is a key-value pair, where the key must be one word and be > separated by the value by a = > > or it is invalid.
No, that's not sufficient. You may want relations between key-value pair. For instance, if you have a line with a key "foo", then a line with a key "bar" must also exist. Or a line with a key "number" must have a value that is a number (more generally matching some regexp). > There, validation. > > To validate an XML file, much more is involved, including checks of > nested tags and escaped characters. That's well-formedness (which also corresponds to validation with an empty schema). > > BTW, how do you do nested blocks in .ini files? > > You can't, and that's a feature. Instead, you have keys where the value > is the name of another section (or possibly another ini file) containing > the "nested" data. So, there is a good reason to use XML (or some other format with similar features) instead of ini: if one needs nested blocks or may need them in the future. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121202113059.gq5...@xvii.vinc17.org
