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• Subject: XML [expletive deleted]
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 11:56:43 +0100

Quote:
"XML is useful in appropriate contexts, but it is being grossly abused in 
most of the ways it is being used today."

Here is the most XML-ish part:
         http://www.artima.com/intv/plain4.html

Full article starts here:
         http://www.artima.com/intv/plain.html

My take? Some of its right and some of its wrong. There was a time when 
most of it was wrong. Back in the early days of XML before we layered all 
the crud on that allows people to - quite understandably - balk at the 
sheer complexity and not-for-human-consumption of XML 2003.

Sean


http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com

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