XML....so what?
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Chris Losinger wrote: XML does no good unless all parties involved agree on what they're storing, the schema to use and the kinds of things you can do with the data. That is the job of W3, who oversees SOAP standardization // Fazlul
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i'm not convinced. there's no way they're going to hit every problem domain, and even if they did, some company would come along and say "hmm.. This w3 standard is crimping our ability to Innovate. we can do X or Y better if we transmit our data this way." -c
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. Mark Twain
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Igor Vigdorchik wrote: XML is the best thing since the sliced bread What was the best thing before sliced bread? :) Thomas
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. Mark Twain
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i think you've hit all the major points. as i see it, XML is just a easy-to-understand way of moving data from one place to another, or to transform that data from one form to another. someday people will stop trying to use it to solve every problem. -c
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. Mark Twain
Chris Losinger wrote: someday people will stop trying to use it to solve every problem. I'm surprised you're so cynical - I can't tell you how my graphics filters improved when I started storing the images as XML. jpeg FF FF AA AA DD DD Christian The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little. And you don't spend much time with the opposite sex working day and night, unless the pizza delivery person happens to be young, cute, single and female. I can assure you, I've consumed more than a programmer's allotment of pizza, and these conditions have never aligned. - Christopher Duncan - 18/04/2002
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:-D Yes, there's a bit of a recurring joke now where I work where when anybody states a problem that they're having difficulty with they get the same response from many directions: Ah, you'll need to use XML for that then. Q: I need a data transfer protocol? A: Ah, you'll want XML for that. Q: I want to log a bunch of simple data to a text file. A: Why don't you use XML! Q: I need a hedgehog! A: I can define one of those in XML if you'd like. Try it, it's the answer to all of your coding problems. I think if I see one more pointless use of XML I'll scream. Yes, you can do clever stuff with it and it has its uses. No, it's not the messiah - it's a very naughty boy. -- Simon Steele Programmers Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/
Simon Steele wrote: I think if I see one more pointless use of XML I'll scream. You should express your anger in an XML file :) -:suss:Matt Newman / Windows XP Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179:BestSnowman
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Igor Vigdorchik wrote: XML is the best thing since the sliced bread What was the best thing before sliced bread? :) Thomas
Thomas George wrote: What was the best thing before sliced bread? Presumably, unsliced bread. ;P ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.