From: Philip E. <pe...@li...> - 2001-10-26 15:13:58
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Steve Cassidy wrote: > > One of my main motivations for using XML as a serialisation format is that it > removes the need to invent a new format and write a parser for it. I'm bad > at inventing new formats and when I've done it I've always found a little > later that I need to extend it in some way that I didn't forsee. XML makes it > much more likely that I'll be able to do that. It also means that I don't > need to write the parser (of course this argument doesn't hold if you're > Steve Ball :-) Ah, but parsers are easy... interpreters are the hard part. |