Comments on: XMLSucks? .. Maybe http://blog.landspurg.net/xmlsucks-maybe/ Technology, wireless, games...and more..... Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:40:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Phu http://blog.landspurg.net/xmlsucks-maybe/#comment-959 Phu Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:11:17 +0000 http://blog.landspurg.net/xmlsucks-maybe#comment-959 It have been done better! In section "7. Verbosity" Aaron Crane explains that "XML is hideously verbose for humans — just like SGML". It provide an alternative bracketed notation. Such notation already exists: symbolic expression (1958). Forty years after, XML came out, heavier, uglier (cf. CDATA patch), harder to parse... It seems that James Clark and Tim Bray missed the point. It have been done better!

In section “7. Verbosity” Aaron Crane explains that “XML is hideously verbose for humans — just like SGML”. It provide an alternative bracketed notation. Such notation already exists: symbolic expression (1958).

Forty years after, XML came out, heavier, uglier (cf. CDATA patch), harder to parse… It seems that James Clark and Tim Bray missed the point.

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