Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)
Grant Griffin
g2 at seebelow.org
Sat Oct 14 16:33:51 EDT 2000
David C. Ullrich wrote:
>
> 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... .
I dunno...to uninitiated folks like me, the more immediate conclusion is
that XML is verbose. <wink>
i'd-tell-you-that-in-xml-if-i-knew-how-(and-had-time)-<wink>-ly y'rs,
=g2
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