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!news1.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada? Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:01:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1102168907 18074 134.91.1.34 (4 Dec 2004 14:01:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:01:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6755 Date: 2004-12-04T14:01:47+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: : 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! Punch cards hardly tell you what the holes mean? : 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. This is a misunderstanding of what readibility means here. Please see my other reply in this thread. -- Georg