sknox (1/27/2012)
It's the unrelenting insistence of some to express every property in XML as an element that leads to XML being widely considered a waste of space and difficult to read. It doesn't have to be either.
Well, yes, it is nonsense to insist that attributes should be expressed as singleton elements. And the space and processing saved by not doing so is valuable.
But even XML without that pointless extra verbosity is difficult to read and wastes time. (Yes, I'm an XML-hater; or rather someone who hates to see XML used for something for which it is utterly inappropriate, which happens often enough to make me inclined to hate first and looks and see if it was justified afterwards.
Tom