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!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 17:27:52 +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 1LwTHNJ8W2QdPf3qWlTyZQ0IGS9dMCZBvrCU1CeZvBwwEWINs= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6757 Date: 2004-12-04T17:27:52+01:00 List-Id: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:01:47 +0000 (UTC), Georg Bauhaus wrote: > 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? Sure, each hole had a tag printed on the card! See: http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/cards.html Deluxe punchers even printed the punched text on the card, redundant but beloved by suckers! The positions 73..80 were usually reserved for numbering, very handy if your hands are trembling! (:-)) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de