Stewart Stremler wrote:
XML goes the other way... for simple configurations, it's ridiculously
complicated. And most configuration is key-value -- so you end up using
simple XPath expressions to get the data you want, which puts you back
into the key-value world, which makes XML just another layer of complexity.
Except that any useful program evolves and then you have a complex
configuration file shoehorned into a crummy config format.
No thanks.
I don't know why everybody complains about XML.
You suck the whole tree into memory. You walk the tree. Done.
This is no better or worse than if you used s-expressions, delimited
structures, etc.
The big problem is that the people who complain about XML are generally
the same people who would complain about *any* hierarchical organization.
Just because *your* language sucks at serialization is no reason to
handicap *my* usage of useful data structures.
-a
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