On Wed April 6 2005 08:03, Eliot Lear wrote:
Bruce Lilly wrote:
Such as line breaks in the middle of words, followed by loss of
indentation?
N.B. no smiley.
So what?
So if the primary purpose of a piece of software is to produce
properly-formatted text documents, and it fails at that task, all bets
are off (i.e. if it fails to produce *correct* results, being fast,
cheap, small, flashy, self-contained, portable, etc, usually don't
matter; and in this case being slow, requiring multiple external
programs etc. are simply additional baggage).
The nice thing about an XML format is that if you don't like
the representation you can change it without changing the source. Isn't
that nice?!
Not if the primary output is unusable. But maybe I missed your point...
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