<<On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 07:46:33 +1000, "Eric Ulevik" <eau@ozemail.com.au> said:
The downsides of XML are: * you need a full up-to-date parser for most benefits * right now, there are no good editors for creating XML * data expands a fair bit
* it's hard to grep -GAWollman
Garrett Wollman wrote:
* it's hard to grep
That sounds interesting. Why would that be? Or more to the point: what RE are you using that gives interesting results that would made harder by having various <offset>+1</offset> and other such tags around various pieces of the data? -Paul -- Myriad Genetics: http://www.myriad.com/
<<On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:35:02 -0600, Paul Hill <phill@myriad.com> said:
That sounds interesting. Why would that be?
Because the information which is now in one line would either be: 1) spread out over many lines, or 2) spread out over one line which wraps around the screen several times. Unfortunately, many of the restrictions (with respect to SGML) that make XML easier to parse in software also make it harder to parse in wetware. -GAWollman
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