Re: Preference Files

Paul Prescod (papresco@technologist.com)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:37:59 -0500


david@megginson.com wrote:
>
> Simon St.Laurent writes:
>
> > Has anyone started work on a standard DTD for preference files, or
> > is the expectation that everyone's going to do their own
> > differently?
>
> It sounds like a good application of RDF, if you're a believer.

Whether or not you are a believer, it seems like a perfect testing ground
for RDF ideas. For instance: what would a generalized RDF editor look
like? Presumably, it would be suffice as your preference file editor for
"experts" (at computing in general, not XML/RDF in specific). It would
probably look vaguely like the Windows registry editor, but do something
more sophisticated with embedded strucutures and links.

Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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