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Re: Documents, data and markup: YAML Ain't Markup Language

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• Subject: Re: Documents, data and markup: YAML Ain't Markup Language
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 06 Jun 2003 16:24:37 -0700
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John Cowan <jcowan@r...> writes:

> If we must have a rule, let it be:  In data-oriented applications, ignore
> unknown elements.  In document-oriented applications, replace an
> unknown element by its content.

I'd go one further: If you strip all markup and the document is still
human-readable, it's a document document.

Ari.

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  • Documents, data and markup: YAML Ain't Markup Language
    • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
  • Re: Documents, data and markup: YAML Ain't Markup Language
    • From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>

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