XML overuse? (was Re: Python to XML to Python conversion)

[Clark C . Evans]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:07:53AM +0100, Jonathan Hogg wrote:
| I'm not sure it is possible to "overuse" XML. If you need to read and write
| structured data, why bother coming up with your own format? (see: the entire
| contents of /etc) Or why use something that is proprietary to a particular
| language or system? (see: Pickle)

For my purposes, YAML (http://yaml.org) is doing just
perfectly.  It has lots of advantages over XML, first 
it is readable and second it uses native Python objects
(instead of a document object model)

Best,

Clark
Yo! Check out YAML!
http://yaml.org

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