From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: The horror that is XML References: <3C854CEB.78282CAF@nyc.rr.com> <3C864517.6BC0B43D@nyc.rr.com> <3C878633.C0618762@nyc.rr.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3224531969643439@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:19:20 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1015543160 193.71.199.50 (Fri, 08 Mar 2002 00:19:20 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 00:19:20 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:28086 * Tim Bradshaw | That's a blowup factor of ~250 which is not bad. Saves having to | provide floppy support for Windows anyway. Heh. One thing that continues to amaze me with those *ML people is that both they and their software have this unnerving fixation on whitespace and sprinkle it liberally to sort of indent their HTML code, as if anyone could possibly have cared. Some web pages I have seen have more than 30% whitespace that is discarded as "markup" by whatever passes for a parser. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.