On Aug 27, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:
What all this proves is that XML can be horrid, or it can be just fine. Personally, I would have no problem with writing
<Name>foo</Name> <Version>1.0</Version> <Synopsis>This does stuff.</Synopsis>
Now I don't have to worry about whitespace; XML has rules for all that.
Multiple conflicting sets of rules, in fact. There _is_ a notion of "element content white space", however, non-validating parsers like expat can't KNOW which white space is ecws and which is not.
Huh, I was under the impression that you could just use unix-style file paths in a relative fashion with Cabal even on Windows...
Uhuh, and how do you specify whether the files are under C: or D:?
Since early MS-DOS days, / and \ have been interchangeable except in the command language. If you want C:\FOO\BAR to pass to a system function, C:/FOO/BAR will work just as well.