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List:       xml-dev
Subject:    Re: [xml-dev] Many different syntaxes in XML - is that good language design?
From:       Damian Morris <damian () moso ! com ! au>
Date:       2022-03-09 2:02:19
Message-ID: F5C1B452-01C4-474A-AD4C-A696FEDC2D02 () moso ! com ! au
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> On 7 Mar 2022, at 10:14 pm, Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
> 
> Dealing with lots of different syntaxes is hard. For example, I never remember the \
> syntax for CDATA sections (in fact, I had to look it up just now).

A counter-point to this is that dealing with clearly differentiated syntaxes makes \
recognising them much simpler, and thereby more reliable - which makes the parsers \
easier to construct. 

It can also feel like less "magic incantations" to the user - ie, fewer small, \
apparently arbitrary syntax variations, which makes it simpler to know which \
particular syntax to use for each particular type of document construct.


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