Re: Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada?

[Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote:

> What is meant by "human readable text" is that structured values
> can be represented as text, explicitly naming the parts and relations.
> If a human looks at three bit patterns, he/she will have to
> know context and a bit of luck in order to be able to interpret
> the bit patterns like a computer does.
> If a human looks at
>
>   <issue-date   year="2003"  month="4" day="31" />

But was not the idea of XML that - by using an appropriate CSS - the data
can be rendered by a browser for easy reading? And don't you need to
seperate data from markup to archive that:

<issue-date><year>2003</year><month>4</month><day>31</day></issue-date>

Martin

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