[erlang-questions] Rant: I hate parsing XML with Erlang

[Ola Andersson A]

I agree! Except for the "Erlang" part...
xmerl is extremely unpleasant to work with, but isn't the problem more
related to XML than the programming language?
I find it hopeless to translate the XML mess into an accessible data
format.
I long for the good old ASN.1 days when protocols were designed for
computers
instead of humans. Who needs to parse protocols without a computer?
/OLA. 

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>[mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED] On Behalf Of Joel Reymont
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>Subject: [erlang-questions] Rant: I hate parsing XML with Erlang
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>I only have so much horizontal real-estate on my screen and I totally  
>hate how xmlElement and xmlAttribute take so much of it. I also hate  
>how XML parsing code looks in Erlang.
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>Am I the only one?
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>I think Simon Peyton-Jones (Haskell) said that the syntax is the user  
>interface of a language. If so then Erlang has a user interface only  
>a mother could love, at least when it comes to parsing XML!
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>	Joel
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