On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:23:43AM -0700, Windell H. Oskay wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Ouabache Designworks wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:08:25PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > > XML is far too heavy, agreed, and it's signal-to-noise ratio is > > abysmal. > > Why? I'd much rather handwrite XML than YAML. > And I'd certainly prefer it to the existing file formats, which I can > barely edit without looking up the meaning of each position. > > I'm not sure that I see a good reason for the hatred of XML. I've > never found the size of Inkscape documents to be absurd, for example, > and the fact that python and other languages can manipulate it so > easily is definitely a plus.
Proposing XML without a DTD is like proposing French without any defined nouns. People hate XML because most DTDs are abysmal. For a reason to hate XML, I refer you to Apple's plist format. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
