vlc config file

[Bill Eldridge]

Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002, Henri Fallon wrote:
> 
> > I really don't know yet, and have no time for now (school, etc...) but
> > XML sounds good to me.
> 
>    I think XML would be too heavy. We want an easily editable file, and
> we won't use 1% of the structurated data XML may provide us. Look at
> rcfiles in /etc, they almost all have one-liners, you can easily add
> comments, etc.
> 
>    As for the parser, we don't need to reinvent the wheel, flex and
> bison are here to help.

Well, with one liners, it's
easy enough to make it XML compatible
anyway, and since it's regular, why
a parser should be able to handle it
no problem.  You don't specifically need
an XML parser to parse it if it's simple -
just use regular expressions for now,
and later on if someone needs to parse
it with an XML parser, you're already
set.

Typical Preferences:

[video]
size=160x128
rate=30

[audio]
channels=mono
frequency=44.1

Can easily be in XML form:

<preferences>
<video>
<size>160x128</size>
<rate>30</rate>
</video>

<audio>
<channels>mono</channels>
<frequency>44.1</frequency>
</audio>
</preferences>


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Bill Eldridge
Radio Free Asia
bill at rfa.org

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