On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> 
> The problem with XML is that it's often advertised as such "one size fits 
> all" format, while in reality it simply shifts the "difficult" part from the 
> format to DTD/stylesheet.
> 

My feeling exactly.

However, it's very good for some types of data, which may well include
analog output. But at the moment, I have an unofficial ban on new output
formats, until the scalability problem is solved. (Then I can think of half
a dozen I'd like someone to write!)

-- 
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
 "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than
  the question of whether a submarine can swim."  (Edsger W. Dijkstra)

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