Re: [Help-smalltalk] [RFC] handle paths in a saner way

[Mike Anderson]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
>> Also, why XML, when we don't even have an XML parser in the standard
>> libraries? (OK, I know I've said that before).
> 
> Just because.  XML is easily extensible (remember when we added
> <namespace> to packages.xml) and any other syntax would not be much
> easier to parse (e.g. JSON).
> 
> The obvious exception may be Smalltalk code, but in the case of ZIP
> files I mentioned above, one may not want to evaluate user code lightly
> if they care about security.

The thing is, XML is not that easy to parse, and, in fact, packages.xml
is not parsed properly - the parsing is done line by line, and can't
handle comments. What's really spurring this mini-rant is that I've been
looking for a decent XML editor recently, and there aren't any. That
tells you something.

Mike