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What the hell am I?
I'm a simple XML syntax parser. Not a real XML parser. Nothing to do with DTD's.
Really speaking, what we do here is not XML. If it's anything it's a DDL (Data
Description Language).
In short the base syntactical rules are the same as XML, giving us a
hierarchical file-structure of key-value pairs (just like the Windows(tm)
registry). As a bonus, it's human-readable, and human editable as well as
being a doddle to handle programmatically
This lends itself very nicely to configuration files, and that's _exactly_
what we're doing here.
** Warning **
Just at the moment, I'm not supporting:
* XML empty tags (I did, but I'm not right now)
- Update: empty tags are back
* Spaces,tabs,carriage returns, line-feeds inside entities (just because)
- Update: I'm now supporting whitespace within the entity, but not
leading or trailing whitespace
* modifiers inside tags (eg: <something mod1="blah" colour="blue"> )
(and honestly, I'm not at all sure what we would do with them if we supported
them anyway)
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