On 17/01/16 16:26, Chris Green wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 02:35:13PM +0000, Peter Flynn wrote: >> But XML isn't a programming language; it's a markup language. > > I hate HTML too, for most of the same reasons! :-)
I dislike it too, probably for other reasons, though. It was a great way to bring the web to everyone, and it's now slowly dissolving into a free-for-all of abuses every bit as bad as those I complained about in 1995-6. > ... and you're basically agreeing with me in that last paragraph. :-) Completely. But XML was designed for normal text documents (Word, DocBook, TEI, even HTML); its use for exchanging *data* is occasionally useful (eg MySQL's -X option) but is overkill for most purposes. But that's not XML's fault. ///Peter -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
