On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:23:43AM -0700, Windell H. Oskay wrote:
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> On Sep 13, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Ouabache Designworks wrote:
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> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:08:25PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> > XML is far too heavy, agreed, and it's signal-to-noise ratio is
> > abysmal.
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> Why? I'd much rather handwrite XML than YAML.
> And I'd certainly prefer it to the existing file formats, which I can
> barely edit without looking up the meaning of each position.
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> I'm not sure that I see a good reason for the hatred of XML. I've
> never found the size of Inkscape documents to be absurd, for example,
> and the fact that python and other languages can manipulate it so
> easily is definitely a plus.
Proposing XML without a DTD is like proposing French without any defined
nouns. People hate XML because most DTDs are abysmal. For a reason to
hate XML, I refer you to Apple's plist format.