Why Not XML Schema?

• XML Schema is a standard that allows you to define the allowable structure of XML from within XML

  • We are not parsing an XML file, we are parsing an Apache-style config file.
  • We don't want to validate or generate XML, we want to create a set of Python objects based on configuration data.
  • Simpler schema definition rules. Vocabulary is in terms of configuration domain rather than XML.

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