You can't really list all those wonderful w3c pages without also linking the classic article "The S stands for Simple" - sure, it's about SOAP not XML, but the problems are similar: http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple/
- Korny On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Adam Salter<[email protected]> wrote: > > Myles, > Your talk was a good excuse to poke fun at XML. I don't/didn't > personally think you would be anything more than tech agnostic. > I guess I can see some uses (HTML)... > > Anyway, I didn't really see your talk as knocking XML. For me it's > just that XML can be have kind of unpleasant connotations because of > it's 'overuse' (IMHO). > > http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/ > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/ > http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl > > ... Maybe XML is the best way of describing these things?? It is sure > fricken complicated... and pretty unpleasant to parse or translate > into Ruby objects. > > -Adam > > On 17/07/2009, at 12:54 PM, Myles Byrne wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Ben Schwarz<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Myles, I think I witnessed a similar response to my talk >>> which was pretty loosely on the subject of abstracting before >>> understanding the domain, rather than bashing / a personal opinion >>> of one technology or another. >> >> Yeah except my title was not "Why XML sucks" apparently (for reasons I >> don't entirely understand) everyone read it as that anyway. >> >> > > > > > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
