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bdfh42 | 12 years 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.

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mqsiuser|12 years 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 ?!