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From: Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:28:15 +0100 
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:00:15PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:

> Any right-thinking person realises that XML is far from a panacea, and
> is horribly over-hyped.
> 
> On the other hand (and rather sadly) one of XML's advantages is simply
> its ubiquity.

And this was exactly the point of XML: to have a single notation for
structured data so you'd never have to write your own parsers, converters
and all the rest of that again.

Agreed, it's too verbose, but that also depends on the DTD.

A C syntax is more concise and it can be validated by the C compiler ...

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