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RE: YAML Ain't Markup Language

• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,"Martin Soukup" <martin@d...>,"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: YAML Ain't Markup Language
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 15:09:55 -0400
• In-reply-to: <B885BEDCB3664E4AB1C72F1D85CB29F806484452@R...>

At 11:52 AM 6/6/2003 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

>Your answers are the type of answer I'm used to seeing when someone brings 
>up the "data vs. document" debate that I consider meaningless.
>
>Data that a computer can process vs. data that a human can process? So are 
>there people who utilize XML without the benefit of a computer doing some 
>processing? Or are there places where XML documents are processed and 
>never have to be viewed by a human?

Did you read all the way to the end? You seem to have missed the punch 
line. Here it is again.

> >Does anyone have any concrete differences between such uses of XML that
> >require such divisive terms as "doc vs data people".
>
>Sure. A document person is someone who doesn't appreciate the significance
>of using XML for data. A data person is someone who doesn't appreciate the
>significance of using XML for documents intended for humans. You can
>usually identify a document person when he calls someone else a datahead.
>You can usually identify a data person when he calls someone else a dochead.
>
>Then there are the XML people, who understand the significance of XML for
>both documents and data.

Jonathan 

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