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Dave Winer’s posted his spec for storing user preferences to the XML-Dev list.

Each group of preferences becomes a ‘panel’ and within each panel, each parameter is described. So a preferences for this Web Log might read.

<wizard>

<panel title="Your Topics">

<item type="string" title="Your Favorite Topic"

adr="user.favorite">

    <option value="Web Logs" display="Web Logs"/>

    <option value="Servers" display="Servers" />

    <option value="Politics" display="Politics" />

    <popuptext>The entries on the topic you select

    will be featured when you visit.</popuptext>

    </item>

</panel>

</wizard>

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