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Yeah. thats what you would want, but thats not an XML PList - (defined
as what the PList serializer will write out). It was a counter to "now
PLists are XML". The xmlization of plists has not been a good thing.
On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 12:17 PM, Anthony B. Coates wrote:
> ** Reply to message from tblanchard@mac.com on Fri, 25 Oct 2002
> 10:56:25 +0200
>
> Speaking of things that only a mother could love, I think a better XML
> approach
> would be along the lines of
>
> <library>
> <CD>
> <artist>Alice Cooper</artist>
> <title>Goes To Hell</artist>
> </CD>
> </library>
>
> which is no harder to write than your curly braces version, especially
> if you
> are using an XML editor that at least knows how to put in the close
> tags. You
> can always use a stylesheet to generate your verbose XML sample below.
> If you
> compare the literal XML-isation of a text format to the original text
> format,
> the XML version will always look bigger and uglier, but that is
> because literal
> transformations, like literal translations of languages, usually
> produce poor
> results. You need to think about how you would *really* approach the
> problem
> from each side of the technology divide.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony.
>
>> Yeah, but the XML representation is so fugly that nobody that writes
>> one by hand uses the XML format. Also, I think you'd cringe yourself
>> at what is represented - nothing semantically interesting. You get
>> something like (off the top of my head)
>>
>> <dictionary><key>CDs</key>
>> <array>
>> <item><dictionary>
>> <key>artist</key><string>Alice Cooper</string>
>> <key>title</key><string>Goes To Hell</string></dictionary>
>> </item>
>> </array>
>> </dictionary>
>>
>> vs
>>
>> { CDs = (
>> { artist = "Alice Cooper"; title = "Goes To Hell"; }
>> );
>> }
> ====
> Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect
> mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net
> MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language)
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