Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact general-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list general@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 19155 invoked from network); 15 Jul 1999 13:34:13 -0000 Received: from pop.systemy.it (root@194.20.140.28) by apache.org with SMTP; 15 Jul 1999 13:34:13 -0000 Received: from apache.org (pv6-pri.systemy.it [194.21.255.6]) by pop.systemy.it (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA25787 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:33:57 +0200 Message-ID: <378DD53C.FC009F5E@apache.org> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:34:04 +0200 From: Stefano Mazzocchi Organization: Java Apache Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: general@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: Jakarta/Apache XML/RDF configuration file format(s) References: <378BC129.2404B11C@mortbay.com> <378C4CBE.BE2AEE7B@x180.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit James Duncan Davidson wrote: > > > At the moment XML is the format that looks like the b) of the future. I would > > give up a whole bunch of readability, verbosity, conveniance to get something > > that is widely accepted and the target of a zillion tools to assist with > > readability, verbosity, conveniance, etc. etc. > > I would too. The first time I loaded in an XML doc into IE5 and opened > and closed the nodes, I knew that life was going to get better. (note, I > use netscape, but...) Nothing compared to when Mozilla will include a direct XSL:FO renderer :) IE5 simply barely scratches the XML-world surface. -- Stefano Mazzocchi A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. Alan J. Perlis ---------------------------------------------------------------------