My biggest issue is with the poor state of the documentation. It does
not allow me to easily obtain a good level of competency, which I think is
needed to feel like I can be productive with a tool, and to feel that
the tool is worth using.
Once I got past the documentation and did a lot of
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno
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Subject: Re: [U2] Building XML using the UV XDOM API functions
Gregor, your comments serve as a testimonial to support my
position against using many
Let's be careful we're lobbing grenades at the right enemy. As I see things
the conflict here isn't choosing vendor supplied solutions vs. open source,
the problem is the vendor doing a poor job of making something that is
usable and truly useful.
There is a time and place for both vendor
On 10/26/2010 1:46 PM, Kevin King wrote:
But all that aside, vendors need to put more attention into their products
to make them useful and usable rather than simply another tick on a
marketing checklist.
This conversation is reminding me of a recent blog post I read.
Brilliant article! Thanks for sharing.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of jpb-u2ug
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I'll have to disagree with you on this one Tony. As a vendor yourself you
would of course think this way
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno
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Gregor, your comments serve as a testimonial
:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [U2] Building XML using the UV XDOM API functions
Gregor, your comments serve as a testimonial to support my
position against using many of these vendor-supplied toolkits.
Some of them are OK, but many not. People insist on the DBMS
vendors
: Re: [U2] Building XML using the UV XDOM API functions
I actually like the XML handling built into UV. I have always been a believer
in using the intrinsic facilities of the database where possible to maximise
the performance of the process being automated. The XDOM API is a good example
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Romanow
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Compared to something like lxml it seems rather clumsy and unmaintained.
On 10/26/10
I have recently been involved in a project that gave me my first chance to get
acquainted with the UV XDOM API functions.
gripe
I must say that I was bitterly disappointed with the documentation on the XML
functionality in UniVerse 10.2. Nothing more than a simple description of each
of the
Gregor, your comments serve as a testimonial to support my
position against using many of these vendor-supplied toolkits.
Some of them are OK, but many not. People insist on the DBMS
vendors building stuff for them, but then we get the mess that
you've described. For this reason I continue to
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