From: jbritt@...
Date: 2003-02-28T04:59:39+09:00
Subject: Re: XmlConfigFile usage

> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:53:47AM +0900, Chris Morris wrote:
> > YAML gets more traffic here then XML does -- maybe a generic
> > Conf/Serialization lib that could use either XML or YAML might be in order.
> > I dunno, just typing out loud.

Not sure why there is more traffic for YAML over XML (though I have some guesses), but for those displeased with XML, for whatever
reasons, there are many alternatives:

http://www.pault.com/pault/pxml/xmlalternatives.html


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> And/or YAXML. I'd love to see something which does this, as you can then go
> with the object semantics of YAML, whilst having the ability to wrap it in
> the syntax of XML.
> http://yaml.org/xml.html
>
> YAXML may be a subset of XML, but is probably sufficient for both
> serialisation and config files? It's the only object serialisation
> 'standard' for XML that I've seen so far, apart from SOAP which is
> unbelievably complex and ugly.

YAXML isn't so easy in the eyes, either.

In addition to SOAP serialization, there's also XML-RPC
http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec

(I'm sure there are more, with varying degrees of "standard"-ness, but XML-ROC is what comes to mind.)

In the long run, the choice depends on whether you foresee the need for features available in one format that are not available in
others.


James

>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
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