From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b97e385047500eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada? Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 09:05:58 +0100 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: References: <41af8365@news.wineasy.se> <2426353.SD16GYvm6f@linux1.krischik.com> <41b02dfe$0$25046$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <41b0cfc3$1@news.wineasy.se> <41b0f749$0$25068$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 36qysfJ8MNTLXFj+HimgOgPeWS5kAteGfxvdn8J+Dz/N1FUus= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6750 Date: 2004-12-04T09:05:58+01:00 List-Id: On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:33:22 +0100, Adrien Plisson wrote: > so here comes my advice: think twice before using xml. > xml is a very powerful tool for DYNAMICALLY STRUCTURED HUMAN READABLE > TEXT. Human readable? I have an impression that punched cards were more readable! XML reminds me one implementation of Algol 60, in which all keyword were upper case put in quotes, e.g. 'BEGIN'. Though, even that was more readable than XML. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de