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> It’s hard to formulate structured “plain text” formats that are human readable, human writeable, machine readable, and machine writable. XML? Or is that too

> It’s hard to formulate structured “plain text” formats that are human readable, human writeable, machine readable, and machine writable. XML? Or is that too far from plain text?

massysett 6y ago
It’s hard to do this in XML because parsers nearly always strip out comments and often whitespace too. Thus writing days to the file strips out important data that I expect to be able to add if the file were truly human writable.
andrepd 6y ago
XML is not human readable or writeable.