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In case folks think I'm making this stuff up, I just got
an email from the InformIT newsletter that reaches about
1 million developers.
The featured article is called:
"Processing XML with Java: Reading XML"
"Reading an XML document is a complicated, error-prone operation.
Elliotte Rusty Harold discusses how to use an XML parser to read the
document for you."
Here's the URL:
http://www.informit.com/content/index.asp?product_id={30915BCB-25BD-40
89-A4BF-244D25BC7301}&011903
The first XML document shown is the following:
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value><double>28657</double></value>
</param>
</params>
</methodResponse>
In ConciseXML, it becomes the following:
28657
Both forms are expressing the same thing, an
integer returned from a method call.
XML 1.0 took: 126 characters.
ConciseXML took: 5 characters.
Isn't there anyone out there who thinks it
is ridiculous to have a syntax that uses
126 characters to express an integer?
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