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Re: Suggestion for an alternative XML 1.1

• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Suggestion for an alternative XML 1.1
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 20:16:40 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <p04330101b841ac8ffcc8@[192.168.254.4]> from Elliotte Rusty Haroldat "Dec 15, 2001 09:47:40 pm"

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> One of the very strong features of XML is that you can open it up in 
> any reasonable text editor and make sense out of it. 

Provided said reasonable text editor understands the local line-end
format.  Reasonable Windows t.e.'s can't cope with Unix format,
and reasonable Unix t.e.'s can't cope with Mac format.
Reasonable MVS t.e.'s can't cope with Windows, Mac, *or* Unix format.

> *incredibly* useful for developers and for teaching. It is a large 
> reason why XML is superior to binary file formats.  

I agree.  Which is why saying that some developers, on some
systems, have the choice "XML xor plain text", we have an
inequity that must be fixed.

-- 
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@c...
Please leave your values        |       Check your assumptions.  In fact,
   at the front desk.           |          check your assumptions at the door.
     --sign in Paris hotel      |            --Miles Vorkosigan

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