Re: [PLUG] XML, text, and the development of unix

[kmhryhpdblyx@spammotel.com]

At 09:03 AM 11/25/2003, you wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 07:25:28AM -0500, Alex Birch wrote:
> > I think Makefile is a good example of how XML simplifies life. We can
> > compare Makefile versus Ant for a while. I know that I lost a lot of
> > time because I was using a spaced instead of tabs for my first make file.
>
> That's a pretty poor example, since it involves you simply not
> knowing the syntax of the language. It's just as easy (if not
> easier, since there's way more syntax to know) to make that same
> mistake with XML.

I think it's a perfect example.  You can learn XML once and you can then 
understand the basic syntax of any XML file as opposed to having to learn 
the syntax of every application you want to use.

I'm in the camp that thinks XML simplifies life.  The hard part of reading 
the XML file has already been done by the parser.  My application just 
needs to know how to call the parser.  Learn it once and your're done.

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