Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)
David C. Ullrich
david_ullrich at my-deja.com
Sun Oct 15 14:10:41 EDT 2000
In article <39E8C32F.E6A630ED at seebelow.org>,
g2 at seebelow.org wrote:
> 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>
True. But that doesn't matter (I know the verbosity doesn't
matter because it says so explicitly in the standard... but
only once, curiously.)
> i'd-tell-you-that-in-xml-if-i-knew-how-(and-had-time)-<wink>-ly y'rs,
Not to steal someone else's joke, but the first thing you need to
learn is you gotta close those tags: <wink/>.
> =g2
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