-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:15:52 +1100 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> mind you - i am still a little bemused by the use of xml. since both client > and > server are written by the same "team" and are tightly tied together - is there > any reason for needing a complex/heavy "standard"? a simple newline delimited > text file would work just as well with less effort for example, or as below - > eet would too. i am not saying to change it - i am just curious "why xml?" - From the server, I do not know the original reason for this choice, I assume the fact that XML is, for better or for worse, a standard for exchanging information. From the client, of course, I had to adapt, because development has not been parallel to the server. Anyway, the SAX parser looks fast, well done and easy to use, and libxml already exists as dependency for E, so I think it is a good choiche, playing with XML. Massimiliano - -- Massimiliano Calamelli http://mcalamelli.netsons.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFJP4gpleGEL56NNP4RAtsOAJ46BDp+UjZfECZ48F4ui5TWs7dUHQCgw/Ac IIvB2JMp++jInW7Lub1Nh/c= =HSOt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel