On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Geoffrey Irving <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I think S-expressions are a better compromise between writability and ease
> of parsing than XML.


I'm a big fan of S-expressions, but please show me an S-expression parsing
library that has schemas, validation and so forth. The point is to get to a
readable surface syntax *without* giving those things up.

But there is a more subtle issue here that I've been trying to figure out
how to express.

The kind of stuff that I'm writing down isn't so much *content* as it is *
declarations*. Which is a subtly different problem. It's notable that all
of the various XML schema languages that are themselves written in XML are
incredibly cumbersome. Much more so than *content* written in XML. Though
I'm at a bit of a loss to explain why that should be.


shap
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