[darcs-users] Re: XML format

[Alexander Staubo]

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> On 2004-12-16, Alexander Staubo <alex at byzantine.no> wrote:
> 
>>XML exists to describe these structures in a neutral, portable way. The 
>>wealth of parsers, validators and transformation tools provide a 
>>framework that allows you to get up and running very, very quickly.
>>
>>The fact that someone wrote a tool that turned "darcs changes --xml" 
>>into RSS, and did this in only a few lines, is a brilliant example of 
>>the way XML can empower developers.
> 
> It's a not example of using one of the wealth of parsers, though-- The
> XML that darcs produces is parsed 'by hand' in that script. :) It
> does use XML::RSS to generate the XML output, though. 

Oh, man. I just looked at the code. That's *cruel*!

Alexander.