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OK I agree, XSD was just a way for pedants to be a pain. But, any form of structured communication that works for humans (and this is a mark-up language that i

by bdfh42 12y ago

OK I agree, XSD was just a way for pedants to be a pain. But, any form of structured communication that works for humans (and this is a mark-up language that is supposed to work in the human as well as machine spheres) has to include a degree of apparent redundancy that actually applies clarity - well at least avoids ambiguity. My preference is always JSON but XML is cool when it flows and has available tools.

mqsiuser 12y ago
> but XML is cool when it flows and has available tools That's just excuses ("having tools") for failing (on an aspect) If flows ? :-) It's been a great contribution thank you TBL! Thank you. (Let's move on) > for pedants to be a pain :-) (strange) computer scientists "we are interested in formal completeness" WHAT ?!