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Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)

Grant Griffin g2 at seebelow.org
Sat Oct 14 16:33:51 EDT 2000 
David C. Ullrich wrote:
> 
> In article <mailman.969951401.6813.python-list at python.org>,
>   "Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > So what's XML good for, anyway <wink>?
> >
> > never-did-get-the-connection-to-floating-point-ly y'rs  - tim
> 
> <float name='Pi'>
>   <exponent>
>     1
>   </exponent>
>   <mantissa>
>     <digit>
>       3
>     </digit>
>     <digit>
>       1
>     </digit>
>     <digit>
>       4
>     </digit>
>     <digit>
>       1
>     </digit>
>     <digit>
>       5
>     </digit>
>     <digit>
>       9
>     </digit>
>     <digit>
>       2
>     </digit>
>     <digit>
>       6
>     </digit>
>     <digit>
>       5
>     </digit>
>     <digit>
>       3
>     </digit>
>     <digit>
>       6
>     </digit>
>   </mantissa>
> </float>
> 
>    The point is that the XML is self-documenting -
> it's clear to anyone that this denotes the number
> 3.14159... .

I dunno...to uninitiated folks like me, the more immediate conclusion is
that XML is verbose. <wink>

i'd-tell-you-that-in-xml-if-i-knew-how-(and-had-time)-<wink>-ly y'rs,

=g2
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