begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:11:30AM -0700: > > On Fri, June 13, 2008 11:02 am, David Brown wrote: > > 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 > > > > I feel so much better knowing I'm not alone. >
Am I chopped liver, or the choir? -- I will concede there are places for XML. Often that's the discard pile. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
