2009/8/6 James Reeves <weavejes...@googlemail.com>:
>
> On Aug 6, 8:31 pm, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm cringing at the sight of XML here.
>
> XML is frequently overused, but it is a good format for representing
> dense, structured data. For example:
>
> <repository name="third-party">
> <package name="Compojure" href="/compojure.xml"/>
> </repository>
>
> Compared to:
>
> {:type :repository
> :name "third-party"
> :content [{ :type :package
> :name "Compojure"
> :href "/compojure.xml" }]}
Surely we can do better with s-expressions:
(:repository "third-party" [(:package "Compojure" "/compojure.xml")])
I guess it might get a bit trickier if you have a lot of optional attributes...
And you can use the s-expressions as an on the wire interchange format
as well, which works especially well if both ends are written in lisp.
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! Lauri
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