[Typo3-dev] Make configuration simple

[Christopher]

On 17/10/05, Mathias Schreiber [wmdb] <mathias.schreiber at wmdb.de> wrote:
> Elmar Hinz wrote:
> > Now discussion about XML and typoscript is on the old trak again and
> > goes in cycles.
>
> jep.
>
> > With my excurs from today comparing xml and typoscript with focus on
> > validation and contexts I wanted to clear especially the following 2
> > questions:
> >
> > 1.) It is realistic that we can programm validating/semantics check for
> > typoscript one day?
>
> No.
> Question: Why would we want to?


Answer: for the same reasons it's desirable and useful for x/ht/xht/ml
-- as an aid to learning, coding with and extending the system.

Amplification: I expect that TS (or whatever configuration system) is
likely to grow -- there's certainly a lot more stuff in my current
copy of the TSref than there was in the first one I printed out.
Familiarity with the TSref can give one a firm grasp of TS, but
mistakes still happen and are not always trivially discoverable (and,
I submit, the greater the complexity of the system, the easier it
becomes to make errors). Compare this to html (admittedly simpler
since it involves no _behaviour_) where a pass through a validator
provides a more or less definitive list of problems.

Also, formally defined syntax and grammar would help to prevent
inconsistencies such as the way stdWrap is implemented differently on
otherwise almost identical TEXT and HTML objects...


-Christopher