Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)

[David C. Ullrich]

In article <mailman.969951401.6813.python-list at python.org>,
  "Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
[...]
>
> So what's XML good for, anyway <wink>?
>
> never-did-get-the-connection-to-floating-point-ly y'rs  - tim

<float name='Pi'>
  <exponent>
    1
  </exponent>
  <mantissa>
    <digit>
      3
    </digit>
    <digit>
      1
    </digit>
    <digit>
      4
    </digit>
    <digit>
      1
    </digit>
    <digit>
      5
    </digit>
    <digit>
      9
    </digit>
    <digit>
      2
    </digit>
    <digit>
      6
    </digit>
    <digit>
      5
    </digit>
    <digit>
      3
    </digit>
    <digit>
      6
    </digit>
  </mantissa>
</float>

   The point is that the XML is self-documenting -
it's clear to anyone that this denotes the number
3.14159... .

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