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Wesley Leggette <wleggette@××××.net> [20030504 18:02]: |
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> I'll definitly help out writing scripts. Your system is so much easier |
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> to read than sysvinit. And it's a lot easier to write for. It's more |
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> english like. And, hey, if you can't write for XML, I don't know WHAT |
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> you've been doing all these years. Everybody should know HTML, and |
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> XML's syntax is the exact same. There's only about five new words to |
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> learn to get your XML down pat. I don't understand why people are |
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> being such a stick in the mud about all this. |
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Well, I am admittedly sliding away from the topic, but I feel like |
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getting this off my chest. |
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SGML (and thus HTML) was never originally intended to be human |
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readable/hackable. The same goes for XML. It is designed to be |
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easily _parsed_, not easily _read_. |
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This makes it unfitting for programming or configuration tasks in a UN*X |
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environment, where you want to be able to do all configuration tasks |
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with your editor. |
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So it's not so much about not knowing XML, but about knowing when it is |
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appropriate to use and when it is not. |
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Björn Lindström <bkhl@×××××××××××××.se> |
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Home page: http://hem.fyristorg.com/bkhl/ |
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Blog: http://bkhl.livejournal.com/ |
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Elektrubadur demo: http://hem.fyristorg.com/bkhl/elektrubadur/ |
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