Hi All I've been watching this thread with interest. Regarding where we waste time, the other day I looked at an assessment of a large hospital system (where things are almost notoriously a bit sluggish, and the information management chaps are always fretting about efficiency, or lack thereof; we won't even talk about their non-parameterised SQL queries) and to my distress saw that over 50% of the expenditure of time is at parsing XML. This is of course XML used in data transfer, and not in its original (and sane) use as a means of formatting documents. Jesus wept.
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