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From: Shane Stanley
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:29

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On 10/6/03 3:27 PM +1000, Richard Ronnback, richard.ronnback@telia.com,
wrote:

> 1) pure text, I guess I would then have to identify the properties by line
> numbers or some text delimiter

With enumerations and booleans you'd also need some mechanism to read/write
in text form, so you're looking at some kind of translation table in your
script. It's going to be fairly complicated.
> 
> 2) XML, then I need some XML parsing abilities. I think Late Night
> Software's XML Tool would work, but I really would prefer not to use an
> OSAX

XML would have the same problems as above, plus all its own. Only for
masochists.
> 
> 3) To store it as a script, if it's possible. Can you have a script that
> creates a new script file, that you can later load?

Yes. Check out the store script and run script commands in Standard
Additions. But that's going to be even less human-readable.


-- 
Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au

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