[Typo3-dev] Make configuration simple

[Michael Scharkow]

Sven Wilhelm wrote:

> XML knowledge is available by all professional companies. The motivation 
> to learn special systems, most times not. The company will use another 
> system, java based or something else.

Hi Sven,

as Kasper wrote he main issue isn't the markup syntax but the semantics. 
I'm pretty indifferent between TypoSkript, YAML and XML[1], because much 
of my declarations end up in a nested PHP array anyway. Of course, most 
developers understand basic xml structure, but that does not help much 
if you don't understand what the tags and attributes mean. So we need a 
DTD which means a hell of a lot of work for an extendable language like 
TS. Even if we had all that, and we could validate configuration not 
only syntactically but also semantically, writing configuration for an 
actual developer would not be one bit easier.

Greetings,
Michael

[1] Okay, I dislike XML because it's hard to read and write for a human, 
and it has too much line noise.