[Freeciv-Dev] Re: do you really want to work on the ~ (was: registry)

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From: Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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 ...

-- 
Reinier