On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:04:07PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Jorgen Schaefer wrote: > > For XML-dislikers, the whole syntax is horrendous. > > For XML-likers, it's perfectly natural. > > It's never that simple. I use xml for what it was designed for (see the > debconf documentation), and am simply not interested in participating in > the make-everything-xml fad. > "Because everything should be XML" is a dumb reason to do something. But that isn't a reason not to use XML. Is there a reason that you don't think the advantages of using XML that I mentioned (already available tools for both sysadmins editing the files, and programs parsing the files) apply? sam th sam@uchicago.edu http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ GnuPG Key: http://www.abisource.com/~sam/key
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