Re: [Tclxml-users] How to generate an XML document using TCL

[Philip E. <pe...@li...>]

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.