What YAML engine do you use?
rm
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Sun Jan 23 11:46:24 EST 2005
rm wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>> Reinhold Birkenfeld <reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net> writes:
>>
>>> For those of you who don't know what YAML is: visit http://yaml.org/!
>>> You will be amazed, and never think of XML again. Well, almost.
>>
>>
>>
>> Oh please no, not another one of these. We really really don't need it.
>
>
> well, I did look at it, and as a text format is more readable than XML
> is. Furthermore, XML's verbosity is incredible. This format is not.
> People are abusing the genericity of XML to put everything into it.
>
> Parsing and working with XML are highly optimized, so there's not really
> a problem in that sector. But to transfer the same data in a YAML
> format, rather than a XML format is much more economic. But networks are
> getting faster, right?
>
> Nowadays, people are trying to create binary XML, XML databases,
> graphics in XML (btw, I'm quite impressed by SVG), you have XSLT, you
> have XSL-FO, ... .
>
> And I think, YAML is a nice initiative.
>
> bye,
> rm
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20868 :-)
rm
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