Richard Heck wrote: > Indeed. I still can't understand why the XML stuff causes such panic. As if > > \begin_inset CommandInset footnote > status Collapsed > ... > \end_inset > > was somehow inherently clearer than: > > <inset type="Foot" status="collapsed"> > ... > </inset>
as far as plain reading in vi the non xml part is really easily parseable by my eyes. in the xml much more effort is needed to digg out the actual contents. as far as scripting is concerned plain text has only \ letter to treat. now you introduce / < > " letter all of them active in bashing/greping/seding. it is pain to write them when you have to specially treat every second char. > Now you see what's going on. > > How human parsable, etc, a file format is has *nothing to do* with whether > it is written in XML. i cant speak for the whole humanity ;) but for my eyes it quite matters. pavel
