From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 3 19:45:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBAC37B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.61.41.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF8043E42; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@attbi.com) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (localhost.ne.attbi.com [127.0.0.1]) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g942kB8A022726; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:46:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g942kBRx022725; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:46:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:46:11 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues To: Mike Barcroft Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <20021003224611.A22684@attbi.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com>; from mike@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:22:11PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:22:11PM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Ernst de Haan 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