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I'm not sure what difference it makes whether people use high-functioning tools or impoverished ones to edit XML. Are you imagining changing XML in some way that would make it impossible to edit with a non-XML-aware text editor? I think it extremely unlikely that would happen, and think that would actually be a huge mistake if it did. Personally, I edit a fair amount of XML "by hand" (that's emacs w/nxml mode); mostly XSLT, but sometimes configuration files, and process-control documents in our internal formats. Folks writing Xproc are probably writing "by hand" (although I think there was some idea to create a diagram-based editor). -Mike On 12/09/2010 02:15 PM, David Lee wrote: > I argue the readability and writability are *totally different*. > I read XML ALL DAY and for me its #1 appeal s a format is that its humanly > readable. > that’s not at all the same as 'easily written'. > > > However I rarely write directly in it, except for very tiny bits. > ( e.g. preparing my Docbook-like papers for submission to Balisage is a real > challenge for me, and I'm an xml-geek) . > > > I'm not actually proposing that XML should not consider hand editing. > I'm suggesting that many of the discussions this week have been around the > concept of "whats easier to write", > and I'm throughing a strawman out that maybe that’s not the most important > criteria,. > > > ---------------------------------------- > David A. Lee > dlee@calldei.com > http://www.xmlsh.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bjoern Hoehrmann [mailto:derhoermi@gmx.net] > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 2:12 PM > To: David Lee > Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org > Subject: Re: Is "Hand Authoring" XML still a critical use case ? > > > * David Lee wrote: > >> Is Hand Authored XML really an important issue nowadays ? >> > That's a silly question, as close human contact with the source code > varies with applications. Close encounters with XHTML are more common > than close encounters with Atom or XMPP, for instance. I myself use > XML as quick and dirty serialization format for debugging purposes; > that's not authoring by hand, but I have to read it without any tool > assistance and the requirements are similar. >
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