[YLUG] Parsable Rack Diagrams

Stephen Patterson steve at patter.mine.nu
Wed Aug 8 09:57:51 BST 2007


Noah Slater wrote:
>> Sounds like something for some handcrafted XML and a custom written
>> perl/python/foo script to render it.
>>     
>
> XML is not the answer. It is not even the question.
>
> To quote Phillip J. Eby [1] who is paraphrasing  Jamie Zawinski [2] on
> regular expressions:
>
>
> "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
> XML." Now they have two problems."
Indeed ... I only named XML because I didn't know of any other markup
languages, but yes "a markup language" is a good idea :P



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