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Why not YAML?<br>

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One reason is readability.<br>

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Compare:<br>

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><tt>&lt;user&nbsp;id="babooey"&nbsp;on="cpu1"&gt;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;firstname&gt;Bob&lt;/firstname&gt;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;lastname&gt;Abooey&lt;/lastname&gt;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;department&gt;adv&lt;/department&gt;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;cell&gt;555-1212&lt;/cell&gt;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;address&nbsp;password="xxxx"&gt;ahunter@example1.com&lt;/address&gt;<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;address&nbsp;password="xxxx"&gt;babooey@example2.com&lt;/address&gt;<br>

&lt;/user&gt;<br>

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To:<br>

</tt></span><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><tt>babooey:<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; computer

:&nbsp;cpu1<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; firstname:&nbsp;Bob<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lastname:&nbsp;Abooey<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cell:&nbsp;555-1212<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; addresses:<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&nbsp;address:&nbsp;babooey@example1.com<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; password:&nbsp;xxxx<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&nbsp;address:&nbsp;babooey@example2.com<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; password:&nbsp;xxxx</tt></span><br>

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 Matt<br>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Mon Oct 29 06:41 , Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> sent:<br>

</earnie@users.sourceforge.net></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px;">Quoting Olav Schettler &lt;<a href="javascript:top.opencompose('olav.schettler@contaire.de','','','')">olav.schettler@contaire.de</a>&gt;:

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<span style="color: red;">&gt;

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<span style="color: red;">&gt; Please, have a look at it and tell me what you think.

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Why not XML?

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