Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

From: Samuel Holland <samuel_AT_sholland.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 06:39:43 -0500

Chris Down <chris_AT_chrisdown.name> wrote:
>On 2013-10-24 01:04, Samuel Holland wrote:
>> [body]
>> content="%ol%%p%"
>> [ol]
>> style="list-style-type: decimal"
>> content="%li.1%%li.2%%li.3"
>> [li]
>> style="display: list-item"
>> content1="Lack of proper hierarchy, for one;"
>> content2="Lack of proper heterogeneous containers, for two;"
>> content3="%b%:\nlack of multiline strings."
>> [b]
>> style="font-weight: bold"
>> content="The most important one"
>> [p]
>> style="display: block"
>> content="Try to express something as simple as %i% (which is\nrather
>trivial HTML snippet) in .ini format."
>> [i]
>> style="font-style: italic"
>> content="my answer"
>
>I'm hoping this is devil's advocate, this is the worst thing I've ever
>seen.

Yes, it was. The variable substitution is entirely made up, but what's worse is that almost every line of the Wikipedia page starts with "some implementations..."

What I have been giving thought to is a representation using JSON, where each element is an array. The first member is a CSS selector, and subsequent members are strings and more arrays. That way you keep ordering and small size, yet can still mix text and elements.
Received on Thu Oct 24 2013 - 13:39:43 CEST