On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:58:38PM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote:
> XML is so useful because it provides such good abstractions. You can
> define it with a DTD, whack all your data in it, walk it with XPath
> and display it with XSLT and some CSS.
That's not really an intrinsic property of XML, that is a property
of any nested and tagged data structure. The general idea of data
abstraction goes right back to the first C compiler, probably back
to the first algol compiler, maybe further back.
Certainly having tagged data is a good thing, I just happen to
believe that XML is a poor quality implementation of that objective.
- Tel
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