From: merlyn@... (Randal L. Schwartz)
Date: 2003-03-19T06:12:27+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: XML too hard (YAML opportunity?)

>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:

Phil> Seems to me that the Ruby community has adopted YAML
Phil> (http://www.yaml.org) more quickly than many other programming
Phil> communities, which is why I'm posting this here (I suppose it's
Phil> because we tend to be early adopters, but that's a tangent).  It
Phil> also seems to me that YAML solves a lot of these XML problems.
Phil> Anyway, this seems like a good opportunity for YAML.

There are three overlapping and yet somewhat distinct user communities
of XML.  Data-heads (see XML as "structured data"), Doc-heads (see
XML as "better SGML"), and Web-heads (see XML as "the next HTML").

YAML will certainly appease the data-heads.  But it'll do nothing
for doc-heads or web-heads.

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