From: "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs markup language
Date: 18 May 2004 14:41:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nvfitbmsb.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3smdxvitm.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 18 May 2004 17:47:01 +0200")
On Tue, 18 May 2004, larsi@gnus.org wrote:
> Timothy Brown <tim@tux.org> writes:
>
>> I know i'm walking dangerous ground here, but this is a matter of
>> opinion. XML is easier to parse and has the benefit of flexibility
>> and pre-existing tools in order to transfer it to other formats...
>> Not that Texinfo doesn't.
>
> XML is easy to parse, but what's important here is what's easy to
> write. Parsing is done by computers. They deserve the pain.
Emacs support for XML is not as good as Texinfo support, in my
experience (I've done both). In addition, XML, just like SGML and
HTML, is hard to debug when something goes wrong. I vote against
XML.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-18 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-18 13:07 Per Abrahamsen
2004-05-18 14:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-18 15:08 ` Jonas Steverud
2004-05-18 15:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-18 15:41 ` Timothy Brown
2004-05-18 15:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-18 18:41 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2004-05-18 19:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-18 20:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-18 20:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-18 19:07 ` Norman Walsh
2004-05-19 15:16 ` Manoj Srivastava
2004-05-19 18:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-19 20:36 ` Steinar Bang
2004-05-20 21:24 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-21 5:41 ` Alex Ott
2004-05-21 14:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-24 18:06 ` Norman Walsh
2004-05-24 18:06 ` Norman Walsh
2004-05-18 18:25 ` Group renaming doesn't rename score files Max Froumentin
2004-05-19 23:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-20 3:36 ` Kevin Greiner
2004-05-20 16:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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