Re: XML was RE: RE: A portable preferences library

J C Lawrence <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:39:19 +0100 
Jorrit Tyberghein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pierre Terdiman wrote:

> However, there are lots of tools in existance that can browse XML
> files in a more structured way. And in that sense it becomes very easy
> to read. This is also one of the advantages of XML. There are so many
> tools available.

Agreed, but it is also one of the disadvantages in that they are all new
tools and fundamentally different tools (eg not stream based) than the
text processing tools you are already familiar with.  You're not only
making an investment in a data format, but in a set of processing tools
to go along with it at the same time...

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