Darren New escreveu:
> 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.

Precisely so, like implementing validators or transformers for xml docs. 
  How recursive and verbose you can get?  "Hey, Darren, have you already 
wrote that xml document to validate the xml document validator that 
validates our client xml document?"

I can't actually believe a typeful haskell supporter (I'm looking at 
Orchid) is here advocating an xml document rather than writing a typeful 
haskell program to validate data marshalling.

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