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XML? how is this not just XML with a schema?
by liamkinne 1y ago
XML? how is this not just XML with a schema?
- epolanski 1y agoMaybe it's not fully XML compliant. Anyway quite an interesting project, XML's a better fit for "programmable" data.
- gavinray 1y agoIt has self-closing tags, which you can see in the repo screenshot, so you're correct.
- actionfromafar 1y agoBut why... standards are good, eveyone should have one, I guess.
- PeterStuer 1y agoXML, for those born after 1990, you could have well said COBOL or FORTRAN, something gramps used to mention.
- floatrock 1y agoDoes XML allow you to define for-loops inside <bracketed> items then reference the loop variables inside {{template vars}}? https://youtu.be/b9WDcFsKixo?t=223 https://youtu.be/b9WDcFsKixo?t=223 I guess it doesn't prevent you from doing such things, but... well... there's some eyebrow-raising shoehorning in this one.
- valenterry 1y agoYes it does. Apache ant did that... many many years ago. Creating a new language that looks like XML but is not XML is... kind of unforgivable. I'd go as far and call it amateur-like. We already have good configuration languages (such as dhall-lang) and when more power is needed, then just use a real language and provide a DSL inside of it.
- tempodox 1y agoIt's from Microsoft. They always cook up their own incompatible shit instead of using existing standards.