2013/10/24, Alexander S. <alex0pla...@gmail.com>: > Personally, I'm okay with XML, and feel like Archangel Uriel, may he > rest in peace, was slightly exaggerating. XSLT may be horrid, though, > and XML is maybe *too* verbose, but the idea of having a structure as > a building block is totally okay with me. There is expat parser, and > who needs anything else. > Using XML for simple, non-hierarchical config files is just plain > wrong, not because XML is bad, but because it is misapplied. Using XML > for storing Rhythmbox music database is wrong for the same reason. XML > is for documents.
I think Russ Cox said it very well[1]: Mapping between XML elements and data structures is inherently flawed: an XML element is an order-dependent collection of anonymous values, while a data structure is an order-independent collection of named values. See [...] json for a textual representation more suitable to data structures. 1 - http://tip.golang.org/src/pkg/encoding/xml/read.go?s=257:579#L7
