Re^2: XML plus Perl -- simply magic

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Well someone must have heard your cry.... Perl XML on slashdot

where cLive ;-) promptly blasted XML in general, in favor of YAML::Syck

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Re^3: XML plus Perl -- simply magic by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Feb 04, 2007 at 16:22 UTC
sighs That's the wrong blasting. XML and YAML don't solve the same problem. XML solves the problem of how to encode arbitrary data + metadata into a text format. YAML solves the problem of how to encode arbitrarily-nested data structures. AFAIK, YAML doesn't address the issue of metadata. Now, YAML should be used in many places that XML is used. But, if you had to choose only one to use for every single arbitrary data (+metadata) need, that solution would be XML. I'd love to be proven wrong re: YAML's inability to handle arbitrary metadata, but I don't think I am. My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply]

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Re^3: XML plus Perl -- simply magic
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Feb 04, 2007 at 16:22 UTC

Now, YAML should be used in many places that XML is used. But, if you had to choose only one to use for every single arbitrary data (+metadata) need, that solution would be XML. I'd love to be proven wrong re: YAML's inability to handle arbitrary metadata, but I don't think I am.

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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