Hi all,

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:26:09PM +0100, goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> Michael Rueger <m.rueger at acm.org> wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > To me XML is a structured file format and nothing more. If not abused it 
> > solves a number of problems that I/we would need to find solutions for 
> > anyways. There are tons of viewers, validators etc out there that we can 
> > make use of, web browsers can display it in a structured way etc.
> > I'm just sick of the not-invented-here syndrom...
> 
> I agree Michael and I also agree (after some thinking) that an XML
> format might be the best way to go.
> 
> I just get this reflex nowadays that when people say "Hey, let's use
> XML!" I say "WHY?". As I said I have actually worked quite a lot with
> XML (built a very complex fileformat for a QuarkXPress killerapp in XML
> etc including tons of tricks with entities to embed images etc). It is
> just that often it also introduces complexity instead of reducing it.

So what about YAML (www.yaml.org)?  I expect that would be a much lighter
prereq.  There are Ruby and Perl parsers available.

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> 
> > Michael
> 
> regards, G?ran
> 

-- 
Tom Rushworth