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Re: shared costs (was something about infoset has two daddies)

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• From: Erik Wilde <net.dret@d...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:48:35 +0200
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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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