On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:29:19PM +0000, Charles Forsyth wrote: > when i need to represent more than simple text or values, or attribute > value pairs, which isn't all that often, more and more i use Rivest > S-expressions, as i did on wednesday. > they are unambiguous (unlike both ASN.1 and XML), easy to read and > write, that can represent binary directly where that's appropriate, > with an `advanced textual form' (like it!) that people can read > without suffering eye strain, but with a well-defined canonical form > (always helpful when comparing or signing things).
Sexprs would get my humble vote as well. BTW, re XML, there's also SXML that may or may not be interesting. http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/SXML.html -- The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. -- Linus Torvalds
