tgies wrote: > Attention jerks, > Okay, so you're going to use XML for every imaginable thing which you > can possibly contrive a way to use XML for, including uncompressed RGB > raster images, large relational databases, and the syntax for new > procedural imperative programming languages. Fine. Fine. I suppose I > can't stop you. After all, it is somehow considered new and it is > somehow considered Web 2.0 and there is an X in the name. > > But, for pity's sake, if you are going to define a new XML schema, > please do not be a complete retard. XML has these things called > "attributes" for a reason. You do not need to define a separate tag > for every possible property an element in your XML document may have. > There is a reason that it is <font color="#FF0000" face="Comic Sans > MS">Hello</font> and not > <font> > <color>#FF0000</color> > <face>Comic Sans MS</face> > <text>Hello</text> > </font>. Oh my God.
I would like, at this point, to pimp YAML a little. font: color: #FF0000 rgb: [255,0,0] face: Comic Sans MS text: >- Oh hey, look. It's a human readable block of soft-wrapped text! -- There will be snacks.
