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I just find that XML is cumbersome to enter, and often difficult to
read.
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The difficulty in reading (from a relative standpoint) is often an
authorship (development/design, please pick favorite term) issue. For
example, the following fragment:
<AGNCY>12906798</AGNCY>
<LOC>12 Main St....etc.</LOC>
<IND>John Smith</IND>
is quite more difficult to read than:
<Agency>
<AgencyID>12906798</AgencyID>
<Address>12 Main St....etc.</Address>
<PointOfContact>John Smith</PointOfContact>
</Agency>
Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
Paul Jensen wrote:
>
> Mike Kozlowski <mlk@klio.org> writes:
>
> >> Spot on. I certainly remember feeling a similar sentiment when I
> >> began using Ant. I want to write my Ant buildfiles in "Ant", not in
> >> "XML".
> >
> > That's precisely what I don't want to do. The best thing about XML
> > configuration files is that I already know the syntax -- I don't
> > need to remember whether it's #, //, or ; that marks a comment,
> > whether I need a special character at the end of every line, what
> > character I use to quote strings, how I do escaping, or anything.
>
> It's a good point -- a standard syntax does have advantages you
> mention. I just find that XML is cumbersome to enter, and often
> difficult to read.
>
> > With XML files, the syntax is standard and universal.
>
> Sure -- its strength and its weakness, I suppose. As far as I'm
> concerned, it's more of a weakness when I have to type it in with my
> own fingers.
>
> > (Plus, XML-aware editors make it easy to only view the parts of a
> > large configuration file that matter to me, while ignoring the
> > uninteresting parts.)
>
> Another good point.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> --
> Paul Jensen <psj@foreignkey.com>
>
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