From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Aug 24 16:21:33 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23512 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2000 23:21:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 24 Aug 2000 23:21:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (207.12.88.107) by mta2 with SMTP; 24 Aug 2000 23:21:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.0+3.3W/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7ON4kw26505 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:04:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:04:46 -0400 (EDT) To: Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] le stura be la gihuste - XML In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, John Leuner wrote: > > I have no idea even what XML is, and the only kind of parser I know > > anything about is a YACC parser (and not much even then). > > XML is an extremely popular way of representing structured data. Another way to put it is that it's on the same conceptual level as SGML, but the spec is small enough to be useable. ----- "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make is so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."