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On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:01 am, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> Such a file with foreign-language markup is more interesting and
> more importantly more useful. If the meaning of the data itself is
> not readily apparent, then I have the additional opportunity to
> figure out what language is used for the tags and to translate that.
> This opportunity is not available to me with headerless CSV. The
> meaning is there. I just have to add more knowledge to my personal
> context before I'm prepared to take advantage of it.
The formats aren't equivalent in information content though. Most CSV
files *do* contain header information. Let's move from CSV to
S-expressions. How about then?
<person>
<first-name>Gavin</first-name>
<last-name>Nicol</last-name>
</person>
vs
(person
(first-name "Gavin")
(last-name "Nicol"))
I would argue that XML provides no intrinsic benefit over this.
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