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Re: Article: "The horror of XML"

• To: elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
• Subject: Re: Article: "The horror of XML"
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:07:04 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: seairth@s... (Seairth Jacobs), xml-dev@l... (xml-dev)
• In-reply-to: <p04330108b9e5bf67068f@[192.168.254.4]> from "Elliotte Rusty Harold" at Oct 30, 2002 11:59:28 AM

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> You never know at compile time what documents you or may not 
> encounter. 

This is only true if you are prepared to accept documents from arbitrary
sources.  Plenty of applications aren't.

> In order to be a conformant XML parser, a parser must adhere to the 
> minimum requirements of XML 1.0. It is not enough to work correctly 
> for only some subset of well-formed XML 1.0 documents.

Absolutely.  But there are times and places where non-conformant parsers,
or even no parsers at all, are the Right Thing.  I generate my own XML
documents, and when I process them, I process them with fgrep: it's fast
and it works, because I have 100% knowledge of what the documents look
like -- I generated them, after all.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves."
        --Murray Gell-Mann

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