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Re: ::scr semantic
>I'd like to know why you think XML is a better representation format for
>these type of relations, rather than, say, S-expressions.
But Jo said nothing of the sort. In fact she said
> rdf != xml
But I'll give you a reason (just for the hell of it). While people are
still generating files by hand, it's a hell of a lot easier for
non-programmers to write
<point>
A text with a
<a href="subsection/sec1.html">link</a>
to a <b>subsection</b>
</point>
than
(point
"A text with a "
(a "link" 'href "subsection/sec.html")
" to a " (b "subsection"))
Parsing speed may well be issue. In which case I suggest sending all data
as (java|emca)script objects in string form that can be evaled into
existence. S-expressions may well be *better*, but I don't know of any
widely distributed desktop app that supports them.
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