No silly.
This kind of comparison
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Hobzfd-C10I/S50q8f1SKEI/AAAAAAAAA2w/9EgL1Xzkg0Y/s640/Screen+shot+2010-03-14+at+12.27.09+PM.png
Or even this kind of comparison:
<body>
<arms>
<arm type="left">
<arm type="right">
</arms>
<legs>
<leg type="left">
<leg type="right">
</legs>
</body>
body : {
arms : ["left", "right"],
legs : ["left", "right"]
}
AJ ONeal
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 17:56 -0600, AJ ONeal wrote:
>
> > He's right. If people can't tell just by looking at the two
> > side-by-side, no amount of explaining will reach them either.
>
>
> XML
> - Opening and Closing Tags
> - Self-closing Tags (trivial)
> - Attributes
> - Comments
> - < > "
> - CDATA (if you're crazy enough to use it)
> - Other Entities (if you're crazy enough to use them)
> - Processing instructions (if you're crazy enough to use them)
> - Namespaces (c'mon, we're talking about config files here!)
>
> YAML
> - Whitespace-based structure
> - Lists (multi-line & inline)
> - Hashes(multi-line & inline)
> - Blocks (folding and preserved)
> - Comments
> - String escapes
> - Node references (unlikely)
> - Hash merges (unlikely)
> - Multiple documents (unlikely)
>
> So, looking at the two side by side, tell me again how much simpler YAML
> is?
>
> Note that I deliberately collapsed several of the YAML syntax details to
> keep from too unfairly penalizing YAML for its complexity. If you ask
> me, they look about equal until you consider how much more matures XML
> is and how many more tools are able to work with it.
>
> --
> "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't
> using enough of it." - Chris Maden
>
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