[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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