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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: [ANN] YAML in Five Minutes
From:       Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2003-07-27 11:31:59
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On Sunday 27 of July 2003 02:53, why the lucky stiff wrote:
> > A question - Is a YAML parser easier to develop than an XML parser (not
> > full functionality, just midlevel support)?
>
> It's a pretty close race.  I'd say YAML has a few more tokens than XML.
> In addition, indentation can be difficult to parse.  I'd say a midlevel
> XML parser would be easier to write than a YAML parser.  Neither is an
> incredibly daunting task, though.

well, XML parsers can be validating, then they must parse DTDs and/or XShemas 
and then i'd they they become considerably more complicated than YAML (or did 
i miss something?).

emmanuel
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