Kinda funny that this came up yesterday and today as I'm working on parsing XML data from a public database. My choices are using a poorly formated text dump or an XML dump. The XML dump is 7 times the size of the text output. If they had bothered to add delimiters to the text dump I would be done by now, instead I'm dealing with learning more than I care too about complex XML schemas and how to work with xml data in SQL 2005 ;-)
On the plus side I enjoy learning new things. The downside is that MSDN articles almost always: a) give examples that have nothing to do with what you are working on b) leave out some critical piece of information in any example that does pertain to what you are working on -Jeff Steward On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > To paraphrase jwz: "Some people, when confronted with a problem, > think, 'I know, I'll use XML!' Now they have several problems." > > (I admit XML has its uses (and word processing documents may > actually be one of them), but damn does it get over-used.) > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Worse than that: > > > > <post> > > <font family="unspecified" size="default"> > > <salutation><word>Hi</word><punctuation>,</punctuation></salutation><br > /> > > > <body><paragraph><sentence><word>What</word><word>makes</word><word>you</word><word>say</word><word>that</word><punctuation>?</punctuation></sentence></paragraph><br > /></body> > > <signature><leader>-- </leader><br /><name>Ben</name><br /></signature> > > </font> > > </post> > > > > Ben Scott wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Michael B. Smith < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> XML is darned wordy. > > > > <post> > > <salutation><word>Hi</word>,</salutation> > > > <body><paragraph><sentence><word>What</word><word>makes</word><word>you</word><word>say</word><word>that?</word></sentence></paragraph></body> > > <signature><leader>-- </leader><name>Ben</name> </post> > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > > > > > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > > --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
