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- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:52:17 -0500
xml wrote:
>
> Granted on other platforms it would be a problem to edit such files,
> but should file editing concerns dictate how efficiently data is
> stored?
YES! Completely. It is precisely ease of text editing on common platforms
that makes XML so popular. Otherwise XML could be completely binary and
much more compact.
--
Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco
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