config language

[Bob Drzyzgula]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:16:16PM +0100, prl-linuxbios at sychron.com wrote:
> 
> Over on etherboot-developers, there has been discussion about encoding a
> description of the available NICs in the DHCP request so that an
> appropriate image can be chained. This encodes the PCI IDs (and, IIRC
> some ISA card names).
> 
> It would be great to have a more general parseable hardware inventory
> available via DHCP (which can neatly encapsulate options for this kind
> of thing). So, whatever kind of structure you end up with, consider how
> a more general purpose tree fits in and how it can be flattened into
> DHCP encapsulated options.

The great thing about using XML in this
kind of situation is the relative ease
with which XML-based data can be parsed
and transformed into nearly any other
format. Were the config language encoded
in XML, your application -- to the extent
that the data in the config file were
truely useful here -- would most likely
be codable in a relatively simple script
in XSL or Python, etc.

--Bob