[Typo3-dev] Make configuration simple

[Sven Wilhelm]

> I think by principle that could be done. But the information about the 
> context that lacks in typoscript can't fall from heaven in XML. I expect 
> that the DTD of the XML version would be so general for this reasons 
> that it wouldn't have any use at all.
something like the xml of flexforms :)


> What is the right way?
> Taking all this difficulties in account I see three possible ways:
> 1.) abandon the wish for validation and semantic and hold on typoscript
> 2.) give up typoscript for XML or something comparable that provides the 
> necessary tools
> 3.) take up the efforts to make typoscript validatable
> 
> What do you think?

It seems to me that a great part of the developers forget that TYPO3 is 
currently very closed. To open it means that used technics should 
provide greater access into the deeps and be more "standard like". With 
typoscript I'm not able develop as easy for Typo as with e.g. xml in a 
nice development environment such as eclipse. And thats the major place 
where developers work. If you have more stricter rules it's easier to 
also develop development tools for typo. At the moment this job is just 
a nightmare job.

Regards Sven