kelsey hudson wrote:
XML is overused. It was touted as the end-all be-all, but it's a pain in the ass. There's no good framework for reading or writing it, and it's completely superfluous. It's a flat file description language with flat file data built into it.
Not only are flat files easier to parse, they're easier to edit and read. I don't see much reason to deal with it. Give me flat files, give me happiness.
I forgot to add that XML is, on the other hand, useful for information interchange between applications. It's pragmatic enough to tell the reading application exactly what it needs to do to read in the data. Now, whether or not the receiving application *displays* that data properly is another story ...
A good example of this is OpenDocument. Oh, and kill microsoft for developing their own, competing standard. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
