From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2004-11-18 17:39:33
Hello,
* On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:35:13PM +0200 Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> > What about some XML scheme? *justkidding*
>
> Well, I was thinking of something simple,
As I told: Just kidding.
> XML is not very readable,
It's a matter of being used to.
> and tree-based XML editing tools may alter whitespaces around markers,
> which makes it pretty much impossible to efficiently use any version
> control system.
One could use a "code beautifier" which would be mandatory before any
checkin is done. The version control system (CVS, SVN, ...) could even
enforce this formatting and deny checking in anything which is not
formatted this way.
You see, it is possible to put such things in a version control system.
> The only advantage of XML I can think of is that it defines the character
> set to be Unicode, encoded in UTF-8 or presented with numeric entities.
Does it? I always thought XML enforces Unicode, but does not tell if
UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32 is to be used.
Regards,
Spiro.
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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
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