Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)
David C. Ullrich
david_ullrich at my-deja.com
Sat Oct 14 11:32:36 EDT 2000
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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