From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3E1485B2-6308-11D8-B491-000393CBA46C@mx6.ttcn.ne.jp> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: plan9@blueyonder.co.uk From: kazumi iwane Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: DTD to yacc spec? To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 03:20:05 +0900 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef10c1e6-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I guess this kind of thing is just a fallout from discussions that end > up in "we have all these homegrown file formats for configuration, > user preferences, application private data, ..., and it must be so > much hassle keeping all of that coded up nicely; we need to clean this > up pronto, and the only recognised way of doing it is by using XML; > our life will become so much simpler, as there are so many tools out > there to help with this." Sniff. Sounds very familiar. We use XML only because everybody else does. This silly reasoning hardly justifies the cost of dealing with complexity forced upon us by XML parsers. -- kazumi