On Fri, June 13, 2008 11:02 am, David Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:56:37PM -0500, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > >>I've always called XML "The emperor's new clothes of IT". There's a lot >>of hype about it and its supposed to work miracles- but it doesn't >>actually do anything. Its a file format and you can buy a parser. But >>parsing has been a solved problem since yacc and lex. The hard thing is >>interpreting the tokens afterwards, which XML doesn't do a thing for. So >>it really doesn't do anything. > > It's often worse than not doing anything, since it makes you force your > data into it's structure. > > There are whole sets of data now that fit nicely as XML, not because the > underlying data maps that way, but because people couldn't think beyond > XML. > > I actually liked SGML, as a text markup language. It's an odd choice for > a > data storage model, though. > > David >
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