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Re: XML Sucks

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• Subject: Re: XML [expletive deleted]
• From: Paul Jensen <psj@f...>
• Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 12:12:03 -0400
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Mike Kozlowski <mlk@k...> writes:

>> Spot on. I certainly remember feeling a similar sentiment when I
>> began using Ant. I want to write my Ant buildfiles in "Ant", not in
>> "XML".
>
> That's precisely what I don't want to do.  The best thing about XML
> configuration files is that I already know the syntax -- I don't
> need to remember whether it's #, //, or ; that marks a comment,
> whether I need a special character at the end of every line, what
> character I use to quote strings, how I do escaping, or anything.

It's a good point -- a standard syntax does have advantages you
mention. I just find that XML is cumbersome to enter, and often
difficult to read.

> With XML files, the syntax is standard and universal.

Sure -- its strength and its weakness, I suppose. As far as I'm
concerned, it's more of a weakness when I have to type it in with my
own fingers.

> (Plus, XML-aware editors make it easy to only view the parts of a
> large configuration file that matter to me, while ignoring the
> uninteresting parts.)

Another good point.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 
Paul Jensen <psj@f...>

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