Re: Data table text I/O package?

Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> "You just have to... ". No, gosh, the space was _mistyped_, it
> wasn't intended. This goes for any typo irrespective of what
> delimiter you choose. Now any reasonable CSV has far less offerings
> for error correction facilities for typos like these than any
> reasonable XML. By definition. (And, yes, I know you can construct
> syntax errors in XML, too, if you think this is an argument ...)
>
> Is it the typical Ada programmer's attitude to promote
> self-documenting bracketing constructs only for program text, but
> never for data text?

Unlike Ada, XML is _not_ human-readable.

And if I want an error-correcting file format which isn't
human-readable, there are plenty to choose from, which are faster than
XML.

Jacob
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