On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 23:58, Jérôme Marant wrote: > tomas pospisek <tpo2@sourcepole.ch> writes: > > > On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > >> Fine. And do you really think, XML is perfectly human readable for > >> manual editing? I doubt. And if it is not meant for manual editing, what > >> is the point of making such bloat around of few values? > > > > I do not want to comment your other points (I very well _may_ agree). XML > > _is_ easy to edit, it just takes the right editor, that hides the <""=> > > eye-brain-flow-distruptors away and visualizes the tree structure. That > > means no ascii editor. > > *t > > XML is definitely for interoperability between applications. Yes, but I think the point is, we have no interop issue here: it's just one system (gnome) storing its preferences. No other application will ever need to read that. So, the big benefits of xml are not really used. cheers -- vbi -- featured product: Debian GNU/Linux - http://debian.org
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