Lan Barnes wrote:
# QOTW from Uwe Kline's weekly Tcl/Tk newsletter, 3/14/07
The W3C and MS deserve each other - crap design meets crap
implementation.
As much as I hate the W3C standards ...
I'm going to stick up for raw XML. Parsing/lexing is hard and 99.9999%
of all programmers *get it wrong*.
The fact that XML defined a standard, used Unicode so that I never have
to think about escaping and character sets ever again *and* defined an
API for access was the big win.
Yes, all of these have been done before. Yes, XML is isomorphic with
<insert favorite programming language construct>. Yes, XML has its
warts (as do all things once they hit reality as opposed to theory).
However, nobody ever actually sat down and mustered the will to get it
done before the W3C. They deserve a big round of applause for that.
All the crap layered on top of raw XML, though ... the amount of
suckitude there knows no bounds (DTD's, schemas, query languages, etc.).
-a
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