On 12/18/2015 10:02 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Yep. There IS NO REASON for *any* logfile (or configuration file, for that matter) to be XML. Logs - if your machine is borked, cat or more may work, when no other way to view it does. Configuration... XML is for GUI. If the GUI's already hiding stuff, why not have it write out to *text* files?
XML for configuration is very handy when the configuration file may be modified by software, as you can read it into a DOM tree and validate before writing back to file.
It also allows you to do things like use an XSLT for displaying the configuration is a user friendly way.
Not saying it is always the best way to do things, but it certainly has its uses.
sitemap.xml is an excellent example of a configuration file that probably should be XML for what it does and how it is used.
Logs, well, I don't have a pro XML argument for those.