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> This is why I hate, hate, hate the XML crowd - there isn't anything > wrong with XML as such, but the people who use it because sticking XML > onto something makes it oh, so much better... But, but... it's a standard! > This was, for what it is worth, the way their binary data files around. > They used XML attributes to hold bit-fields, the meaning of which was > known only to their software. > > I was ... horrified. As well you should be. But then, here's my question... Why in god's name would you care how elegant the XML structure iTunes uses is? It's not really meant to be parsed by humans, especially humans who don't work at Apple, and the computer couldn't care less. Even a programmer is going to use a higher-level API. I guess I just don't understand what the point of the rant is... XML may be human readable, but as near as I can tell it was never meant to be read by humans, except possibly the masochistic ones. DarrellThere's stuff above here
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