Norm Walsh said in Defending the Tax
(he argued in favor of pointy brackets)
“The difference between [these] isn’t really that large, is it?”
fruit=pear
vegetable=carrot
topping=wax
and
<doc>
<fruit>pear</fruit>
<vegetable>carrot</vegetable>
<topping>wax</topping>
</doc>
- Jeff Atwood: The difference is large. There is a very real mental cost to parsing even a few short lines of XML
- Debbie: The difference is huge! Knowing where this data stream begins and ends is priceless!