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[Nick Sabalausky]

"Kevin Cox" <kevincox.ca at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Apr 5, 2012 5:04 PM, "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote
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> I for one, absolutely love the way you think.

Really? That's pretty uncommon ;) Most people usually just think I'm nuts!

> But, what is wrong with xml when used correctly.
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Well, it's technically usable, but it's overrated: It's overly-verbose and 
over-engineered. It seems simple at a glance, and it really *should* be, and 
*could* have been, but there's a lot of unnecessary complications if you 
really dig into *proper* XML. I mean heck, just look at the spec: I know 
formal standards naturally tend to be big and pedantic, but for something as 
conceptually simple as XML appears to be, it's waaay out of control. Even as 
a big super-formal standard, XML *still* shouldn't be *that* complex.

JSON is somewhat better, and YAML better still. But protocol buffers are 
vastly superior IMO.