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Some interesting bits popping up. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1109 My favorite bit: ----------------------------- Perhaps commenting on Ewan Birney's earlier remarks about how he has become unhappy with XML due to it's high amount of overhead, Lincoln quipped "XML is the worst possible solution, except for all the other solutions." While it is clear the overhead associated with XML can be problematic with some of the huge datasets used in bioinformatics, it seems to be working like a champ in DAS. ----------------------------- For more on the concerns, see: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1099 ----------------------------- One of his comments, that he is no longer so happy with XML as once he was, prompted a question from the audience after the keynote. He expanded on that comment, saying that he finds XML verbose (not a good thing when your data sets are already huge) and that most often the schemas are poorly designed and tools poorly implemented. When schemas and tools are designed and implemented well, he approves. ------------------------------ That last bit doesn't seem too surprising. Simon St.Laurent Associate Editor, O'Reilly & Associates http://simonstl.com
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