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XML with a convenient UI tools to edit should have fit the bill. Yet, for whatever reason a convenient UI tool would never happen to be there when needed, and
by trhway 6y ago
XML with a convenient UI tools to edit should have fit the bill. Yet, for whatever reason a convenient UI tool would never happen to be there when needed, and thus scared and tired of manual editing of XML the world have embraced YAML.
- masklinn 6y ago> XML with a convenient UI tools to edit should have fit the bill. "You need this special tool to work" immediately and instantly rules out "easy to edit". Or makes the debate irrelevant: every format is easy to edit if you have "a convenient UI" to do it for you.
- anticristi 6y agoOpening XMLs in ZIP containers is easy! Just spin up Word. :)
- sergeykish 6y agoThe fault was in XML editing, pure data authoring is hard. We have convenient UI — web browser, think of it as literate programming, a way to merge man page and configuration file. And plain text editor is a "widely deployed special tool to work". Actual data is countries:\n- GB\n- IE\n- FR\n- DE\n- NO Or 636f 756e 7472 6965 733a 0a2d 2047 420a 2d20 4945 0a2d 2046 520a 2d20 4445 0a2d