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.
>>
>> >
>
>
> >
>



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that wonders what the part that isn't thinking
isn't thinking of"

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