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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs markup language
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 17:47:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smdxvitm.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040518114101.A1975@gwyn.tux.org>

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.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen




  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-18 15:47 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 [this message]
2004-05-18 18:41           ` Ted Zlatanov
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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