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> Was I ever wrong. For a while I thought that the widespread use of a > few XML processors was evidence of a design failure in XML, i.e. anyone > should have been able to roll their own. On reflection, even if you > took the cruft out of XML (entities, etc) I think that outsourcing > processing would have been the way to go. A few of the really valuable > things about XML, especially efficient Unicode processing, turn out to > be hard enough that you would like to avoid writing the code if you can. > Also using a processor has the considerable advantage that you don't > have to invent your own API. -Tim thank you soooo much! i was hoping that somebody finally stop the "all we ever needes and ever will need is markup, everything else is too complex and hence unnecessary" fundamentalists. software re-use is a good thing. cheers, dret.
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