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by Paul Brown.
Original Post: Just Write a Program or a Real Parser, Damn It.
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I have come to loathe .properties and .xml configuration files. (The use of them together is just inexcusable.) People tend to grab a properties or XML file when they need to parse something, and something is usually a configuration file of some stripe. This is convenient, as it happens that ...