On 2016-10-07 01:04 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:
Rick:
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I've seen a _lot_ of configs in the wild with weird indentation, they
tend to get that way because there are lots of situations I've seen
where people edit them through some kind of remote terminal and can
only edit in some vi-like editor. Which may be customized a zillion
different ways in terms of how indentation is handled. That's
something that we'd need to be sensitive to when considering an
indentation-sensitive format.
I commonly do a diff of the xmls to see what has changed in a new
release, or what differs in an example. The indentation is often
'tidied up' in different ways, making the diff almost useless. Perhaps I
need to run an xml formatter before doing any diff's on xml's. Also,
perhaps the Solr committers could agree to standardize on an xml formatter.
Sorry for warping this thread so far: When you comment out a swatch of
XML, you need to allow for embedded comments. That is less troublesome
with some other flavours of config file.
Erick
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Rick Leir <rl...@leirtech.com> wrote:
Thanks for using the word bewildering, I agree.
While we are talking of simplifying solrconfig.xml, may I mention YAML? I
find the YAML format so much more readable than XML.
I have not looked at the code which reads the config, so I do not know how
big a change it is to use cfg4j and read in YAML.
