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Re: [Shorewall-users] Feature Request: Shiny new XML format?

From: Tom Eastep <teastep_at_nospam>
Date: Sun Sep 25 2011 - 23:20:55 GMT
To: Shorewall Users <shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

On Sep 25, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Christ Schlacta wrote:

> I thought of another benefit to a shiny new XML format
>
> All the files could be merged into a single shorewall.xml file with
> different sections.
> <config>
> <adminisabsentminded>true</adminisabsentminded>
> </config>
> <rules>
> <rule>
> ...
> </rule>
> </rules>
> <tcclasses>
> ...
> </tcclasses>
> etc…
>

I really don't see that as a benefit.

> Again, this could optionally be accomplished with any format that can
> implement nested key-value pairs like json. I'm not familiar with yaml.
>
>

I've implemented the simple extension that you suggested earlier. That will have to do.

-Tom

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