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Re: Re^2: is XML too hard?

by zby (Vicar)
on Mar 17, 2003 at 20:31 UTC ( [id://243785]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: is XML too hard?
in thread is XML too hard?

It is. I don't say that it is not. I just say it is not a good one. By good one I define one that would be efficient in describing the datastructures we encounter most frequently in our programming practice - a general one. XML is well suited for describing structure in text document's not general programming datastructures.

The issue is quite subtle - but look at XML::Simple. It tries to make a tree datastructure from XML file, but to do it it needs to make so many gueses that for quite uncomplicated structures you get anomalies - for instance when you save the structure build from XML and get some entirely different XML.

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