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IJCK R2C6 #23

Closed bryanwweber closed 6 years ago

bryanwweber commented 6 years ago

I don’t completely agree with the second part of the statement on page 2 line 16-18: “Second, the XML format is intended to be a machine-readable mark-up language rather than a data format, and its lack of human readability presents a barrier to creating and working with database files.” In my opinion the YAML format resembles the XML format strongly. XML format is human- readable, however, because of the html-tags and ‘<>’ characters, the YAML format might be easier to read. If XML would lack human readability as it is stated in the article, it would not be such a popular format, and I don’t think PrIMe and ReSpecTh would be using it.

bryanwweber commented 6 years ago

Ref: https://github.com/pr-omethe-us/pyked-papers/issues/3#issuecomment-332316621

From Kyle:

Both reviewers seem to be taking a very literal definition of "human-readable", in that XML is written in ASCII rather than binary... however this one does agree that YAML is more readable, which of course is our point. I think we can emphasize that we mean understandable rather than technically readable, and that in relative terms YAML is better here.

bryanwweber commented 6 years ago

Maybe this will help too: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1308562/2449192

bryanwweber commented 6 years ago

I tried to clarify what we meant about lack of readability, and I softened "lack" to "limits". Hopefully that will get the point across. I replied to R1, but still need to reply to this point for R2.

bryanwweber commented 6 years ago

OK I slightly updated the response to R2, so this should be good to close if you agree with the changes.