On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:52:54AM -0700, marc fleury wrote:
> I totally agree with the article, I believe we should merge our
> configuration files today, and get rid of the unreadable XML,
You keep saying "unreadable XML".
XML is now the lingua franca of human-readable structured data.
XHTML, JSTL, Ant configs, SOAP, etc., mean that any serious designer of web
applications must be proficient in reading and writing XML.
Saying "unreadable XML" in the 21st century is like saying
"unreadable French" in the 18th century. It's a statement of one's
illiteracy, not an indictment of the method of representation.
You can have "bad XML" (or, more to the point, bad DTDs), in just the
way that you can have "bad French"; in both cases the burden of
clarity is on the author.
-Michael Robinson
P.S. And, in fact, that's more or less the point of the cited article.
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