On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:58:22PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's certainly hard to define what convenience is where XML processing is > concerned. Personally, I'm more and more against converting XML documents to > other representations (or accessing them as those representations),
Funny, I'm becoming more and more convinced not to use XML at all, and if you have to (e.g., to exchange data with unknown systems, or to let users edit data in a flat text file), limit the XML to just those subsystems. XML is wonderful in theory, but in practice it takes something that should be simple and makes it ridiculously complicated. Why should I spend hours learning a strange new language (DOM) just to get a few tags out of my file, or another new language (XSLT) to do template-like substitutions (I already have Cheetah), or a third new language (xpath) to avoid DOM? Or if I use SAX I have to set up callbacks and piece the portions of the value together. In the time it takes to learn DOM and XSLT, I could have my application already done. I just wish pyRXP was available a few years ago when the XML tools for Python first came out. I bet there's a huge class of Python XML applications that could get by with pyRXL for input and 'print' or your template system of choice for output, without ever having to touch DOM, XSLT or SAX at all. And that the lack of such a tool has held back the number of XML-aware Python applications by a significant amount. -- -Mike (Iron) Orr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if mail problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://iron.cx/ English * Esperanto * Russkiy * Deutsch * Espan~ol _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
