On Tuesday 14 November 2006 19:21, Ben Scott uttered thusly: ... > We're fortunate we got > XML, and not something truely awful like DER or OLE Container > Documents or something.
OLE Container docs? Thanks for reviving those nightmares. I vividly recall having to deal with *memory leak* issues in those document formats -- yes, you got it right! Frequent updates to the document would cause *the document* to grow enormously in size until you performed a specific purge operation, the details of which I am glad to say I've forgotten. Yes, XML is *way* better... Quite frankly, there were many annoying problems with OLE. Trying to do anything *useful* with OLE beyond simple linking to Excel spreadsheets got you into deep waters, fast. Hideously complicated, underspecified, and chocked full of bugs galore. -Fred _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
