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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Re: XML and the Relational Model -- CMM & ISO 9000 - FINAL
 pop3 scripsit: > To respond, I see XML as: > - a massive security hole (so does Msoft, check it out, > http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/) Not a very usable reference, but I'll concede that XML is a security hole. The only way to secure a computer is to disconnect all its links (not excepting the power cord) to the outside, put it a locked vault, and fill the vault with concrete. > - a decent markup language > - an acceptable file exchange or data exchange format (but then, most > anything can be decent at this if all parties to the data source concur). > - a data group or document data form (not even a full implementation of the > Heirarchical Model). Fair enough. > I do not see XML as > - a database tool XML is not a database tool. > - a database XML is not a database. > - a data set XML is not a data set. > - a programming language XML is not a programming language, though there is a programming language -- XSLT -- such that every valid program is also a well-formed XML document. > - a best practice The phrase "a best practice" without context is meaningless. > - a provable technology solution set XML is not a technology solution set. > Now, since the ridiculers and humilators (rotten fruit throwers) in the > crowd have surfaced, and have obviously not bothered to read prior posts > where they would have noticed that I had already agreed with most, or all, > of the content of their most recent post (below), I take that as my cue to > bid you all __Adieu__ Vaya con Dios. > I have accomplished what I set out to do here - to raise the bar a bit - to > introduce the presence of academic excellence in terms of docs and research > papers and other professional reading references - and to offer a method by > which the easiest and simplest and most useful proofs (business case > proofs, side by side comparisons of identical applications) could be > readily accomplished. > > What this community chooses to do with these notions, is up to the > community at large (ad hoc), not up to me (ad persona). Caput Prisciani diminuas. "Ad" takes the accusative, as all students of academic excellence should know. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! John Cowan <jcowan@r...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer) 
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