Doug Holton wrote:
What do you expect? YAML is designed for humans to use, XML is not. YAML also hasn't had the backing and huge community behind it like XML.
XML sucks for people to have to write in, but is straightforward to parse. The consequence is hordes of invalid XML files, leading to necessary hacks like the mark pilgrim's universal rss parser. YAML flips the problem around, making it harder perhaps to implement a universal parser, but better for the end-user who has to actually use it. More people need to work on improving the YAML spec and implementing better YAML parsers. We've got too many XML parsers as it is.
100% right on, stuff (like this)? should be easy on the users, and if possible, on the developers, not the other way around. But developers come second. Now, I didn't check the specs, they might be difficult, they might be incorrect, maybe their stated goal is not reached with this implementation of their idea. But I'd love to see a generic, pythonic data format.
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