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Any system depending on a Draconian parse to ensure its stability is fragile. Limiting the modality limits the application. XML forces every other datatype and format to work with it on XML's terms, what I used to call the pine tree effect of markup (nothing thrives around pines but other pines). XML is fragile and like most fragile things, requires careful attention. When a programmer asks to do what they consider a reasonable thing, eg, inlining binaries, they are told they can't do that very easily or safely. That is fragility. It doesn't mean it won't perform. The space shuttle is fragile. It performs quite well until it doesn't. One of the problems of what just occurred was managers refusing to accept despite what engineers were telling them that a piece of styrofoam could take it down. len From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@c...] [Bullard, Claude L (Len)] > > If one wants to do more (eg, stuffing inlined > binaries), the fragility of XML starts to out I do not see it as fragility of XML. It is when you stick in binary data and some of the other things that it gets fragile. XML as it is now seems to be pretty robust, not fragile - especially since we can edit it with the good old text editor. Even modulo external parsed entities, not fragile.
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