Goals for 0.3.0

Joe Shaw joeshaw at novell.com
Wed Jul 21 08:39:18 PDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 11:33 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> I had a thought about the stuff like:
> <match key="udi:root/kernel.name" string="Linux">
> 
> Might this be easier as:
> <match udi="root" key="kernel.name" string="Linux">
> 
> so that the XML parser handles this for you, and you can express it more
> easily in a DTD?
> 
> Though that might be the XML junkie in me speaking; it may be more
> useful to have a concept of a stringified property on a device.  Also it
> changes the semantics of existing FDI files.

I'm with you on this.  Always make the XML validators/parsers do the
work when you can avoid doing it in your own code. :)

Joe

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