From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada?
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:40:25 +0000
Date: 2004-12-04T11:40:25+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.170.1102160463.10401.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bk4wndvrxe16$.1mmj78jrlyqfp$.dlg@40tude.net>
>>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.
Indeed XML has failed its two main purposes, which were to be readable
by humans and efficiently processable by machines. Maybe there is a
third, unwritten, more important need that XML has met, given its
apparent widespread adoption. Otherwise XML must be the greatest IT hoax
spanning two millenia.
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2004-12-02 21:04 Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada? Daniel W
2004-12-02 22:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-03 8:57 ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-03 9:16 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-12-03 20:42 ` Daniel W
2004-12-03 23:33 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-12-04 8:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-12-04 11:40 ` Marius Amado Alves [this message]
2004-12-04 13:14 ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-05 16:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-12-05 17:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-12-04 13:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-05 8:47 ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-06 11:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-06 18:12 ` Pascal Obry
2004-12-13 20:34 ` Florian Weimer
2004-12-05 1:50 ` David Botton
2004-12-04 14:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-04 16:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-12-06 5:59 ` Daniel W
2004-12-06 14:48 ` Marc A. Criley
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2004-12-03 23:18 ` Robert C. Leif
2004-12-07 19:41 ` Björn Persson
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2004-12-04 20:37 Robert C. Leif
2004-12-04 22:53 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-12-08 23:37 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-12-09 12:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-09 21:04 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-12-09 21:09 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-12-10 22:09 ` Simon Wright
2004-12-11 0:02 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-12-11 9:03 ` Pascal Obry
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