Future standard GUI library
88888 Dihedral
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Tue May 28 05:40:40 EDT 2013
Chris Angelico於 2013年5月28日星期二UTC+8下午3時11分55秒寫道:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
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> > In article <mailman.2265.1369693294.3114.python-list at python.org>,
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> > Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> I'll use XML when I have to, but if I'm inventing my own protocol,
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> >> nope. There are just too many quirks with it. How do you represent an
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> >> empty string named Foo?
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> >> <Foo></Foo>
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> >> or equivalently
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> >> <Foo/>
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> >> How do you represent an empty list named Foo? The same way. How do you
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> >> represent an empty dict/mapping named Foo? Lemme look up my
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> >> documentation... ah, the same way. Does this seem right to
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> >> you?</JubalEarly>
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> > XML doesn't represent strings, or lists, or dicts. It represents trees
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> > of nodes with labels. If you wish to invent some richer semantic
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> > meaning to impose on those nodes, that's up to you.
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> Sure it doesn't, but it's very often used that way. So I guess what
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> I'm really saying is that XML is wrong for 90% of the places it's
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> used.
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> ChrisA
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