| ▲ | odie5533 11 hours ago |
| Is XML a markup language? Because it was often used for not that too. |
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| ▲ | oneeyedpigeon 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Occasional misuse doesn't change its nature. It seems as if MAML cannot be used as a markup language. |
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| ▲ | Skeime 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| But XML was designed as a markup language. That is was often used for configuration is not its fault. (And it works much better for its original purpose, where the otherwise strange distinction between attributes and child nodes actually makes sense.) MAML seems to be designed as a configuration language, but calls itself a markup language. (YAML did too, but they changed it at some point.) |
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| ▲ | AdieuToLogic 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Is XML a markup language? Yes, the hint is in the name: Extensible Markup Language (XML)[0]
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML |
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| ▲ | hnlmorg 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Yes, the hint is in the name:
> Extensible Markup Language Thats not an helpful answer when the reason for this discussion is whether MAML, another document format with the term “Markup Language” in its name, is also a markup language. ;) | | |
| ▲ | xigoi 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | MAML is configuration format, not a document format, which is why the “ML” in its name is a misnomer. | | |
| ▲ | throwaway150 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Your parent comment (hnlmorg) already knows that "ML" in MAML is a misnomer. They are explaining why your grandparent comment (AdieuToLogic) does not explain very well why XML is a markup language but MAML isn't. Your GP comment says that XML has markup in the name so that's a hint that XML is a markup language. Well... so does MAML. But we all agree that MAML is not a markup language. So we can't just say that XML is a markup language because the hint is in the name. By that logic, MAML would be a markup language too but it isn't. We need a stronger argument to explain why XML is a markup language and MAML is not. Like XML can markup content but MAML cannot markup anything. That was your parent comment's point. This whole subthread has become an example of arguing for the sake of arguing. The messages in this subthread are correct on their own but missing the point of the parent comments. |
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| ▲ | classified 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The "ML" in "XML" stands for Markup Language! |
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