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On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 21:58:03 +0000, Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> wrote: | We have just not been very good about making that clear; in my field, | largely because programmers glaze over when you talk about XML and | documents. Mainly because they had already been sold on the idea that XML was a serialization format. The problem was to unsell them, and that would have taken uncommon persuasion skills. | On the other hand, I have documents exactly like this, with a markup | payload of 500% of the document text and more, precisely because it adds | value to the documents for their users far exceeding any minor | inconveniences of pointy brackets getting in the way. Yes, but compare that to the overhead in the example presented here: http://blog.codinghorror.com/xml-the-angle-bracket-tax/ where the "value added", such as it could be, is risibly minimal. (For a very good reason: the base information payload isn't a "document" except by definitional legerdemain only.)
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