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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:15:00 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
Subject:   Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:44:17PM -0700, Jos Backus wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2014 8:46 PM, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:30:53 -0700, Jos Backus writes:
> > >> You certainly cannot wait for all of it to arrive before you start
> > >> rendering.
> > >
> > >Understood. This is why a serialization output format that supports
> > >streaming data is useful.
> >
> > Indeed; XML works fine for that.
>=20
> Not to beat a dead horse, but so does YAML, and it's more lightweight/less
> verbose so I personally find it more elegant. But sure, XML would work as
> well.
>=20
YAML is not more lightweight at all, it is really heavy to parse compared to
XML or JSON.

regards,
Bapt

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