Re: [OT] XML

2012-11-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-26 20:32:17 +0100, olivier sallou wrote: XML is nice for internal config, message/config exchanges, etc... help with its structure and its DTD to force/help understanding the schema. BUT definitely not useable by an end user for end-user config. It is very hard to read (opening an

Re: [OT] XML

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/27/2012 05:40 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-11-26 20:32:17 +0100, olivier sallou wrote: XML is nice for internal config, message/config exchanges, etc... help with its structure and its DTD to force/help understanding the schema. BUT definitely not useable by an end user for

Re: [OT] XML

2012-11-26 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ivan Shmakov oneing...@gmail.com, 2012-11-26, 14:32: Seriously, XML takes a lot of concerns off an application programmer. It provides quoting, arbitrary hierarchical structure, support for different encodings, etc. Why, don't you think that $ grep '[[:lower:]]' FILE is ever supposed to

Re: [OT] XML

2012-11-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 26/11/2012 19:52, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Ivan Shmakov oneing...@gmail.com, 2012-11-26, 14:32: Seriously, XML takes a lot of concerns off an application programmer. It provides quoting, arbitrary hierarchical structure, support for different encodings, etc. Why, don't you think that $ grep

Re: [OT] XML

2012-11-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Ivan Shmakov oneing...@gmail.com, 2012-11-26, 14:32: Seriously, XML takes a lot of concerns off an application programmer. It provides quoting, arbitrary hierarchical structure, support for different encodings, etc. Why, don't you think that $ grep

[OT] XML

2012-11-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at writes: [...] Ever heard of grep, sed, awk, all these nice things that make your life happy. Trash them when you are doing XML. JFTR: there's xmlstarlet(1), which is capable enough to replace awk(1), sed(1), and grep(1) (which is