Cheers,
Ben.
"Mark S. Miller" wrote:
>
> Well, after my "Subversive Innovation" message, you can't say I didn't warn
> you.
>
> For those who can stand it,
> http://www.erights.org/elang/grammar/quasi-xml.html is my draft proposal for
> how to make E play with XML. This proposal would have E use DOM trees as
> its "universal" parse-tree data structure, in much the same way Lisp uses
> S-Expressions or Prolog uses term trees. The other two choices are
> technically superior, but XML/DOM trees seem adequate.
>
> Or, as we use to ask at Agorics when evaluating the latest standards epidemic,
>
> "Yes it's brain-damaged. But is it fatally brain-damaged?"
>
> I think the answer for XML is no, so we should adopt it as our S-Expression
> "equivalent". My core strategy is "pick your battles". Fighting XML isn't
> one of them.
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> Cheers,
> --MarkM
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