On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:56:37PM -0500, Gabriel Sechan wrote:
I've always called XML "The emperor's new clothes of IT". There's a lot of hype about it and its supposed to work miracles- but it doesn't actually do anything. Its a file format and you can buy a parser. But parsing has been a solved problem since yacc and lex. The hard thing is interpreting the tokens afterwards, which XML doesn't do a thing for. So it really doesn't do anything.
It's often worse than not doing anything, since it makes you force your data into it's structure. There are whole sets of data now that fit nicely as XML, not because the underlying data maps that way, but because people couldn't think beyond XML. I actually liked SGML, as a text markup language. It's an odd choice for a data storage model, though. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
