• To: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: XML is easy, was: Re: SV: XML=WAP? And DOA?
• From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@m...>
• Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:58:38 -0500
• References: <PMYVQKGFWRONJELHDGBVT32XVFC2UMG.3c42dce4@MChamp>

Mike Champion wrote:

> 1/14/2002 8:00:17 AM, "Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI"
> <jens.jakob.andersen@p...> wrote:

>
> >3. XML is not easy.
>
> Hmmm, I'm of two minds.  On one hand, the whole bloody mess
> of specs is a nightmare, but I really do believe that the
> bare essentials -- well-formed elements, attributes, text
> with a little help from SAX, a DOM subset, and an XPath/XSLT
> subset -- provides quite a bit of gain for not much pain.

XML is easy. It is the problems people are trying to address with XML that
are hard.

I agree wholeheartedly with your approach. A terrific amount of work can be
done with just a little XML,SAX,DOM and XPath/XSLT. Ok, but you really want
to cure cancer, well that's hard.

Jonathan

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