From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57505 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ted Zlatanov" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Emacs markup language Date: 18 May 2004 14:41:40 -0400 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nvfitbmsb.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <20040518114101.A1975@gwyn.tux.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084906735 27698 80.91.224.253 (18 May 2004 18:58:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 18:58:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6045@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 18 20:58:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQ9nV-0006yK-00 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 20:58:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQ9n8-0005Bq-00; Tue, 18 May 2004 13:58:18 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQ9n4-0005Bl-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 May 2004 13:58:14 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BQ9n4-0002Ez-5g for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 May 2004 13:58:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.bwh.harvard.edu (sysblade0.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.44]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84E93A0219 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 13:58:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 5126 invoked from network); 18 May 2004 18:52:40 -0000 Envelope-Sender: tzz@lifelogs.com Envelope-Recipients: ding@gnus.org, Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu (HELO asimov) ([134.174.9.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.bwh.harvard.edu (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 May 2004 18:52:39 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 18 May 2004 17:47:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57505 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57505 On Tue, 18 May 2004, larsi@gnus.org wrote: > Timothy Brown 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