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XML overuse? (was Re: Python to XML to Python conversion)

From: holger krekel <p...@devel.trillke.net>
Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:55:40 +0200
Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
> Readability for machines does not have to come at the expense of readability> for humans.  A few years back I experimented with an indentation based data> format that is:> > - as readable as emacs's outline mode> - reduce to common conventions like this paragraph for simple cases> - allow mixed nested structures of set, sequence, dictionary, and seqdict> - can include binary data > - can handle different encodings/encryptions in different elements> - with average less than 5% bloat, in contrast to XML's over 100% bloat

do you have any code or design documents for this?  

Sounds quite interesting.

    holger

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