On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 08:34 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 14:29 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Just as sysadmins need to accept some structure in config files
is
> required to ease machine manipulation, developpers need to accept
> indentation, comments, careful design are required to ease human
> manipulation.
>
> There is no inherent reason elements in XML files can not be properly
> indented, commented and ordered so diff/patch and manual editing works
Take a look at the how the XML files are saved these days (they're
indented) and also take a look at gconftool-2 --load and --dump for
"patching".
Cheers,
Mark.