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Bob Wyman wrote: > But frankly, I think while it would be nice if XML were more > compact, it will do more harm then good to have two flavors of XML in > the wild. I recognize that you've probably put a lot of good, hard > work into defining your syntax and making the code work, however, I'm > afraid that if it becomes popular, the impact on interop is not going > to be pleasant. If we're going to have a common alternative to XML, > then it should offer *great* advantages over XML -- advantages that > are greater than those that seem to derive from your proposal. I never thought of my indented compact syntax as anything but a quick and easy device to make some xml files fast and easy to type (for _me_! - and perhaps someone else too). And that is mostly the case, I think, when the xml is fairly list-like. In fact, this format grew out of my efforts to let a non-xml person type simple indented lists, and have me turn them into xml. I normally just type my xml into a text editor, but once in a while I still fire up the indented parser. Of course, you could have it output SAX events. Cheers, Tom P
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