Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] WWWBoard2 - PLEASE RESPOND

[Nick C. <ni...@cl...>]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:28:33PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:07:45PM +0000, Nick Cleaton wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:07:55PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > > 
> > > For some reason I have this gut dislike of saying that something is "XML"
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > (which has a well defined spec) but then implementing a parser that can
> > > only read files formatted in our way. (for reasons of speed/size/inlining)
> > 
> > That's simple to fix in the docs - it saves data in "an XML-like format".
> 
> I'll buy you a beer for everyone who reads the docs before mailing the
> support list. :-)

Where were we going to "say that something is XML" if not in the
docs ?

You dislike the idea of saying XML, but we can't fix that by saying
"an XML-like format" instead because nobody is listening anyway ?

Too zen for me :)

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Nick