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

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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: do you really want 
to work on the ~ (was:
        registry)
From: Jules Bean <jules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Andrew Sutton <ansutton@xxxxxxx>
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On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 21:02, Andrew Sutton 
wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 December 2001 04:05 pm, 
Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Excessively verbose I would say. I just 
don't think XML is good for
> > everything. This is not the case where 
XML would give any huge benefit.
> 
> oh my god! somebody shares my view of XML? 
its wonder ;)

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.  Since XML is so widely 
(over)used, there exists emacs
mdoes to conveniently edit it, multiple 
validating parsers, and so on.
So even though it may not be the best, or a 
particularly good, choice
for a universal document format, its 
popularity *does* make it more
useful...

In some cases, a bad standard is better than 
no standard.

Jules