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At 12:27 31/07/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote: >Sean McGrath wrote: > >> But the fact that the "same item" can have so many different lexical >> forms means that getting the right answer every time necessitates >> parsing the XML. > >...in an open environment, where you might get XML from outside >sources. In my case, the XML was both produced and consumed by >programs I controlled completely: I could just as well have used >a private format. By using XML instead, I am free to send copies >to outsiders so that they may consume it. Such outsiders had better >use parsers, as I may change the non-Infoset details of my XML if >I feel like it. > If you worked for me I'd insist you used a parser too. What happens if you go under a bus? It would be remiss of me as a manager of an engineering team to allow my developers cut corners and expose the organization to costly engineering that could have easily been avoided. regards, http://www.pyxie.org - an Open Source XML Processing library for Python
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