[libvirt] [PATCH V2 3/4] Parse lists of values

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:08:44AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> This patch introduces a parser for parsing lists of values as for example
> found in the XML here:
> 
>         <parameter name='TEST' value='[10.1.2.3,10.2.3.4, 10.1.1.1]'/>
> 
> The list of values is then stored in the newly introduced data type
> virNWFilterVarValue.

This kind of thing is frowned up with XML, because now everything that
uses the XML doc has todo special parsing. eg, you can't just use a
XPath query to get a list of IP values as a nodeset, instead you have
to query for a node and then post-process it. Why not just support

         <parameter name='TEST' value='10.1.2.3'/>
         <parameter name='TEST' value='10.2.3.4'/>
         <parameter name='TEST' value='10.1.1.1'/>

Regards,
Daniel
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