Re: [computer-go] GTP and Tourney in SmartGo 1.4

[Myriam Abramson <mabramso@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes, readability is  supposed to be a strength of XML  but in the real
> world it's  barely readable  and only if  it's very  nicely formatted.
> The real information is a tiny  fraction of the data being sent buried
> inside verbose tags.

XML is supposed to increase readability of web pages by a
program. Readability by a human was never a consideration. 

>
> A big drawback of XML in  my opinion is the complicated parsing.  That
> means you have to link in libraries  to help you do it.  This tells me
> it's too heavyweight for what we actually need.

Actually, all you need to read and write XML is in the Java SDK. 
>
> And what  would be the actual  gain?  That it would  make our software
> more buzzword compliant?   
>

I agree that there's no need to conform to any protocol just for
conformity sake. But what about projects like go.jxta.org? They
probably need an XML interface since JXTA is all XML based. 
I don't know about SOAP but I heard good things about XML/RDF. 


                                   myriam
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