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Re: why XML?

• From: James Fuller <james.fuller.2007@gmail.com>
• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:38:02 +0100

>I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but if those don't matter to developers, I'd much rather they use something else.

like what ?

J

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:
> The reasons I occasionally recommend XML to people include:
>
> * Mixed content - ignored by too many formats
>
> * Extra layer of metadata - attributes can be incredibly powerful
>
> * Many options for schemas - no schema, RELAX NG, W3C XML Schema,
> Examplotron, etc.
>
> * Other people are doing it - if you're stuck, you're stuck.
>
> * Tools - I've written my most recent books in Asciidoc, but the tools
> underneath all speak DocBook.  It's an easy conversion between ecosystems...
>
> The only other reason I recommend it these days is a fondness for angle
> brackets, which I sometimes find in folks who've spent their last few
> decades in HTML.
>
> I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but if those don't matter to developers,
> I'd much rather they use something else.
>
> Otherwise, they'll spend a lot of time cursing XML, and worse, will pile
> extra crap (yes, I'm looking at Namespaces and W3C XML Schema) into XML to
> try to rebuild it in their own image.
>
> XML has suffered enough.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Simon St.Laurent
> http://simonstl.com/
>
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