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Re: XML Sucks


xml cumbersome
<Quote>
I just find that XML is cumbersome to enter, and often difficult to
read.
</Quote>

The difficulty in reading (from a relative standpoint) is often an
authorship (development/design, please pick favorite term) issue. For
example, the following fragment:

<AGNCY>12906798</AGNCY>
<LOC>12 Main St....etc.</LOC>
<IND>John Smith</IND>

is quite more difficult to read than:

<Agency>
    <AgencyID>12906798</AgencyID>
    <Address>12 Main St....etc.</Address>
    <PointOfContact>John Smith</PointOfContact>
</Agency>

Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton

Paul Jensen wrote:
> 
> 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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