But imagine converting any large piece of data into XML by writing it.
Writing small config files by hand is fine, but basically you are
looking at a system where it is designed to be read and written by a
machine.
Input config data into a gui config tool and it gets saved as XML.
Receive a web request, look up a database and return the results as XML.
XML is just a representation of the data. It is not designed to be read
and written by you. Try reading a page of XML and see what I mean.
Filters are a machine based parsing.
Wesley Parish wrote:
Not that I'm aware of. The purpose of xml, as far as I know, is to make
formatting a human-editable characteristic of whatever text it is used on.
Or at least, that's one of its major purposes - another being to simplify the
development of filters to edit text automatically and as part of a workflow.
My 0.02c - no longer legal tender ... ;)
Wesley Parish
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 13:44, Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, December 4, 2007 12:50 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote:
Any old text editor should do.
I've found kate to do at least syntax highlighting.
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Isn't it the case that the purpose of xml is to be machine readable and
writable, but its not really for human writing & reading - except in the
simplest of cases?
