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> human-readable technically yes, practically maybe not so much, especially with e.g. CDATA sections
by guitarbill 8y ago
> human-readable
technically yes, practically maybe not so much, especially with e.g. CDATA sections
- smittywerben 8y agoHe means Cantor's XML you barbarian.
- macspoofing 8y agoIf we're talking about a human-editable configuration file, then yes, it will be quite human-readable. Machine generated XML can be noisy but the target for those are other machines, and the extra context is there for a reason. You can certainly make XML as obtuse and complex as you want.
- Gibbon1 8y agoTwo examples from two IDE's. Codelite's xml based project files can be easily read and modified by hand. Diffing them yields useful information about files added and moved, config values changed, etc. Eclipses project files also written in xml are an Eldritch Horror. I think the failing of xml is also it's strength. It doesn't do typing and schemas, doesn't even try. Which means that can be sane. Or not.