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 At 00:35 20/04/2001 +0100, Al Snell wrote: >On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Anders W. Tell wrote: >> However a number of reasons exists >> - Using string syntax enhances the readability. >> - Size, SVG path strings are more compact. >> - DOM bloat, large DOM trees could be created. >> >> Of course the question is if these arguments are valid... Readability is imho a valid argument. XPath as it is is more readable than any XML equivalent (this is not a comment on the quality of the XML representations that have been submitted here and elsewhere, they serve a different purpose and I'm already using Matt Sergeant's excellent representation in some projects). Size otoh is not really a good argument. Gz-compressed SVG is really small (smaller than the other vector graphic formats that I've benchmarked it against), and it wouldn't be much larger if paths used markup instead. However, SVG paths wouldn't be much more humanly readable as markup than they are as strings so that point is pretty moot in the context of SVG (which has a few weird things such as rect for rectangle and g for group but still ellipse, polyline, polygon instead of ell, pline, pgon...). ><snipe class="troll" allowable-replies="non-flammable only"> >So much for XML as the universal data interchange language if the core >standards are already hitting its limitations and having to embed other >languages in it :-( ></snipe> That's not a fair comment (but you did say so). I don't think the core standards are hitting limitation in XML, though they may be hitting limitations in markup, which I don't think they can be blamed for. //foo[@bar='gork'] is easier to understand and to write than any equivalent XML vocabulary could ever be. The limits are on the human side (because people read and write those things) not on the side of the expressive power of XML. That being said, more powerful regexen in XML Schema would be very welcome :) _______________________________________________________________________ Robin Berjon <robin@k...> -- CTO k n o w s c a p e : // venture knowledge agency www.knowscape.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. 
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