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RE: Re: Where does the "nothing left but toolkits" myth come f

• To: "Bob Foster" <bob@o...>,"Elliotte Harold" <elharo@m...>
• Subject: RE: Re: Where does the "nothing left but toolkits" myth come from?
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:17:30 -0800
• Cc: "Robin Berjon" <robin.berjon@e...>,"XML Developers List" <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Re: Where does the "nothing left but toolkits" myth come from?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Foster [mailto:bob@o...] 
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:46 PM
> To: Elliotte Harold
> Cc: Robin Berjon; XML Developers List
> Subject: Re:  Re: Where does the "nothing left but 
> toolkits" myth come from?
> 
>
> So if one called it BML and wrote SAX and DOM APIs to read 
> and write it, you'd be happy with it?

I don't understand this obsession with SAX and DOM. As APIs go they both
[expletive deleted][0,1]. Why would anyone come up with a simplified binary format then
decide to cruft it up by layering a crufty XML API on it is beyond me. 

[0]
http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/01/31/sax-the-bad-
the-good-and-the-controversial/
[1] http://www.artima.com/intv/dom.html


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