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RE: YAML Ain't Markup Language

• To: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@d...>,"Martin Soukup" <martin@d...>,"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: YAML Ain't Markup Language
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:52:42 -0700
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• Thread-topic: YAML Ain't Markup Language

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? 
 
PS: I'd like to say thanks to the people who brought up the meaningful distinctions such as the tendency to eschew mixed content in data-centric uses of XML. 

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From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@d...]
Sent: Fri 6/6/2003 11:48 AM
To: Dare Obasanjo; Martin Soukup; Simon St.Laurent; xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE:  YAML Ain't Markup Language



At 10:51 AM 6/6/2003 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

>I often here folks on XML-DEV talk about the distinction between
>data-centric vs. document-centric uses of XML yet I've always failed to
>see how these uses of XML are at loggerheads. This now seems to me to be
>the typical XML-DEV posturing the advance an agenda.

Data is information that a computer can process. A document is information
that I can process.

>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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