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Re: considering XML

2004-01-21 12:09:49
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:53:07PM -0500, George Schlossnagle wrote:
| IMHO 'human-readable' data formats are over-rated when their 
| consumers are all automated processes.

That's actually an argument in favour of XML.

It's easier for machines to read, because we already have XML libraries
and a toolkit.

SPF is easier for humans to write but at the end of the day most people
are still using a wizard.

             SPF                           XML

  easy for lay people to write      slightly harder for lay people to writep
  easy for XML nerds to write       very easy for XML nerds to write
  new parsers have to be written    parsers kind of already written
  less extensible                   theoretically more extensible

thoughts?

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