Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not the programmatic side of things that's annoying (well, it is, > but that's because XML parsing libraries are not nice in C, C++, Java, > and so forth -- and picking a language based on XML support seems > backwards)
Have you tried processing XML in Java lately? There are several options that reduce the parsing down to just a few lines of code, especially if you're interested in using XPath or a data binding tool like JAXB. > SGML and children ain't for humans. Wow, that's backwards for SGML, smearing the parent and offspring. Most of SGML's complexity lies in its affordances for human authors; XML tossed most of that in the interest of simplifying, with the goals of both simplifying parsers (hence making them viable in environmens not possible with SGML) and turning its back on human authors hand-editing the files. -- Steven E. Harris -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
