>>>>> "Ben" == Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> I am a bit of an XML bigot, though. However, I've just started Ben> looking at XPFE and Mozillas framework stuff, and despite a few Ben> minor annoyances so far, it looks like it might help cure my Ben> XMLophobia a bit. I believe XML is great for what it was intended: a cross-platform vendor-neutral text-based representation of hierarchical somewhat-self-describing data, somewhat robust to version upgrade. However, I hate typing it. I hate having to type </foo> when I get to the ending level. I want to just type a right-paren, watch my editor flash the corresponding left paren, and be done with it. XML is great for machine-to-machine. For me, XML sucks for human-to-machine, and is only marginally better at machine-to-human. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
