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On Dec 11, 2004, at 23:07, Tim Bray wrote:
> If you have a Macintosh, the disks are just stuffed with "plists",
> which are an XML expression of a map, sort of;
I'm familiar with property lists:
http://www.javalobby.org/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=16260&tstart=0
> the XML syntax is rather horrible:
Ok... Why would you qualify it as "horrible" though? How would you
model it instead? I have to confess that to me it all looks like a blur
of angle brackets :o)
Here is how a "old style" property list look like:
{ user = wshakesp; birth = 1564; death = 1616; }
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
PropertyLists/Concepts/OldStylePListsConcept.html
Here is the equivalent XML version:
<dict>
<key>user</key>
<string>wshakesp</string>
<key>birth</key>
<integer>1564</integer>
<key>death</key>
<integer>1616</integer>
</dict>
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
PropertyLists/Concepts/XMLPListsConcept.html
How would you make the XML format to represent such a dictionary
structure less "horrible"?
Cheers,
PA.
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