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I think I'm with the author on this. The two scenarios are very different. Bold text is probably a span of text within a larger block of text: delimiting it wit
by TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
I think I'm with the author on this. The two scenarios are very different. Bold text is probably a span of text within a larger block of text: delimiting it with an opening and closing tag makes sense. A config value is a boolean switch.
This makes sense:
<element>Some text here. <bold>Some more text here.</bold> And yet further text here.</element>
This does not:
<value>true</value>
That should be:
value: true
- stvltvs 3y agoA better XML encoding would be the following, optimally with a schema that would define allowed values. <setting name="foo" value="true"/>
- TRiG_Ireland 3y agoThat still feels ugly and verbose to me.
- stvltvs 3y agoI don't disagree, but it's easier to rigorously validate than lighter-weight markup languages, if that's important to the use case.