[Catalyst] YAML vs. *

[Brandon Black]

On 6/11/06, Kiki <kiki at bsdro.org> wrote:
> Well it's either that or tag clutter à la XML ... or a

I still think XML is perfectly reasonable and universal for a
config-file format, easily recognized and edited by most people (even
if its a bit verbose), and can serialize everything we need.

The issue with most XML configuration formats is that they lack a DTD,
and so the rules are ambiguous at best.  It wouldn't be that hard to
write an XML serializer module that actually uses a published DTD for
perl data structures, and always validates against the DTD when
reading (and spits useful parser error messages if anything looks
fishy).  Could even add a script that checks config syntax validity.

-- Brandon