On 2/23/2012 11:06, Warp wrote:
>    It's verbose, but it has one advantage over most other formats: It's
> standardized and pretty well supported.

It also has an advantage in that it's a *markup language*. That's what it's 
for. Just as it sucks for passing around arrays of floats or passing pov-ray 
data objects between clusters of renderers or encoding routing table 
updates, it does pretty darn good at things like writing help pages, user 
manuals, and so on.

Bitching that XML is poorly suited for something it was never designed to do 
is just pointless.

It's only verbose if you're not using it to pass around human-readable prose.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   People tell me I am the counter-example.

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