Tim Attwood wrote:
>> Unsurprisingly, he says it much more eloquently than I ever managed. 
>> Until he starts relating people who use XML to people who voted for 
>> Bush, at least. :-) The first half is good, at least. :-)
>>
>> http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/s-exp_vs_XML
> 
> Wow, that guy is an idiot. S-exps are uglier than XML,

I didn't think S-exps was what he was after, other than in the name of the 
URL. He makes a good point that
<integer>0</integer>
is a dumb-ass way of encoding data. :-)

The parts I thought are good are
1) Don't use XML if you're not doing markup, i.e., if you don't have orders 
of magnitude more cdata than tag text
2) If you're going to define something that uses unicode, get rid of the 
crap that lets you also define escape sequences, because nobody is going to 
ever get that right anyway or want to use it.

The number of times I've seen XML misused and *therefore* broken in just 
this way is legion.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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