Re: Why Don't 'We' Talk about XML ???

[Ministry Of Jute]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Right.  readability is only mentioned as part of
>
>    XML documents should be human-legible and reasonably clear.
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> and only after
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>    XML shall be compatible with SGML.

Yes, but come on.  We are talking about a document that in many ways can 
replace the use of SQL databases.   An XML document is far more readable 
than a binary database file -- wouldn't you say ?


> so I doubt readability played a significant role in the design: most of the
> "not too bad" readability comes from SGML and so does the cruft that makes
> it not so hot readbility-wise.
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>
>         Stefan