Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:46:11 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <20021003224611.A22684@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com>; from mike@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:22:11PM -0400 References: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <200210040000.28365.znerd@FreeBSD.org> <20021003222102.90460.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <200210040049.05902.znerd@FreeBSD.org> <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com>
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:22:11PM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > If most file formats would be XML-based (yes I know XML should not replace all > > file formats, but it comes a great way) then these formats would be leveraged > > by the fact that there are a lot of XML tools available, like XML editors and > > XML transformation processors (XSLT). It's easy to convert from one XML > > format to the other, making the generation of DocBook or XHTML documents a > > /lot/ easier. > > I've always wondered what a Makefile would look like in XML. And here is how it looks: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/using.html#example XML is OK, but I think it is overhyped, just like Java was overhyped a few years ago. It's just putting things in angle brackets, after all. ;) -- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr rodrigc@attbi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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