Marshall Spight wrote:
> Joseph Kesselman wrote:
>
>>Mikito Harakiri wrote:
>>
>>> <node id=0 parent_id=null label='A'>
>>
>>Whatever that is, it isn't XML. XML attribute values must be quoted.
>
>
> Exactly. Once you put quotes around the attribute values, the
> design becomes really good, because text based formats are
> flexible and nice. You can just put in whatever you want. That's
> the right way to manage structured data. "Traditional" databases
> are no good, because tables are flat, and the real world is tree
> structured. There are lots of structures that you can't express
> as a single table, like a linked list.
>
> Another advantage of text formats is that anyone can write a parser
> for them. You want as many parsers as possible; that way the
> market can decide on what variations of the format are acceptable.
Your comment is 4 days late.
Received on Wed Apr 05 2006 - 14:06:48 CDT
