On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 9:55:39 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > sohcahtoa82: > > > On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 7:09:35 AM UTC-7, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> Grant Edwards : > >> > Were there other languages that did something similar? > >> > >> In XML, whitespace between tags is significant unless the document type > >> says otherwise. On the other hand, leading and trailing space in > >> attribute values is insignificant unless the document type says > >> otherwise. > >> > >> > Why would a language designer think it a good idea? > >> > > >> > Did the poor sod who wrote the compiler think it was a good idea? > >> > >> Fortran is probably not too hard to parse. XML, on the other hand, is > >> impossible to parse without the document type at hand. The document type > >> not only defines the whitespace semantics but also the availability and > >> meaning of the "entities" (e.g., © for ©). Add namespaces to that, > >> and the mess is complete. > > > > XML isn't a programming language. I don't think it's relevant to the > > conversation. > > The question was about (formal) languages, not only programming > languages. > > However, there are programming languages with XML syntax: > > <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT> > <URL: http://www.o-xml.org/spec/langspec.html> > <URL: http://xplusplus.sourceforge.net/>
Seriously?! You need to justify talking XML on a python list? Which kind of 'python' this list is about? https://www.facebook.com/nixcraft/photos/a.431194973560553.114666.126000117413375/1338469152833126/?type=3 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
