17 May
2004
17 May
'04
5:01 p.m.
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 19:59, Taybin Rutkin wrote:
On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 03:23, Joern Nettingsmeier
wrote:
Ditto. Standard, ubiquitous, obscenely large number of tools to work
with it, double plus good.
Minor gripes about it being (objectively) not nice to read (or "bloated"
or blah blah) are trivial compared to the advantages.
Then again, the libxml2 dependancy is an issue.. not sure what I think
about that one.
-Dave
sure, libxml2 is huge, but almost everybody will
have it in memory
anyway, since it's used by other programs.
imho, xml *is* very human-readable if the DTD is sane and the output
is pretty-printed. and it's already defined, all the tools are in
place, and changing the DTD is a matter of writing a simple XSLT for
the users to convert their old versions.
so ++xml.
I agree. For metadata, XML or RDF is where it's at. ++++. :)
Taybin