[mapserver-users] XML mapfile?

[Norman Vine]

Andrew Hallam writes:
>
>As a starting point a small app/library could be created that converts an
>XML map file to the current map file format. It could use an XML schema to
>help validate the content before it is written to disk in native MapServer
>format.

This is an EXCELENT idea !

FWIW  -  IMHO and AFAIK xml though an ASCII format and a very useful
one at that,  was NOT designed to ever be directly manipulated by humans

just my 2 cents

Norman