[Adium-devl] O'Reilly XML blog article: Parsing XML… backwards?

Colin Barrett timber at lava.net
Wed Mar 14 07:53:17 UTC 2007


On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:41 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Mar 14, 2007, at 00:37:49, Colin Barrett wrote:
>> Creating markup that isn't well-formed isn't terribly useful, IMO.
>
> His suggestion isn't to create a single non-well-formed document,  
> but many well-formed documents strung together in a sort of mini- 
> archive format.

But foo.xml would not be a well-formed XML file, and thus the existing  
XML toolkit wouldn't know what to do with it.

Why bother with XML if you're just going to invent yet another format  
anyway?

-Colin




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