• From: Damian Morris <damian@m...>
• To: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
• Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 02:02:19 +0000

> On 7 Mar 2022, at 10:14 pm, Roger L Costello <costello@m...> wrote:
> 
> Dealing with lots of different syntaxes is hard. For example, I never remember the syntax for CDATA sections (in fact, I had to look it up just now).

A counter-point to this is that dealing with clearly differentiated syntaxes makes recognising them much simpler, and thereby more reliable - which makes the parsers easier to construct. 

It can also feel like less “magic incantations” to the user - ie, fewer small, apparently arbitrary syntax variations, which makes it simpler to know which particular syntax to use for each particular type of document construct.

• References:
  • Many different syntaxes in XML - is that good language design?
    • From: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>