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Gee, that is a great post, I too want to know how is XML+html better than
C?
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anil Philip wrote:
> Hello,
> I would agree that XML is human readable and that
> XML+HTML is probably better than HTML. However, I was
> wondering:
> When we used C, (I guess there's an entire generation
> that didnt need to learn it :)), one transferred data
> using structs.
> eg.
> /* from memory... */
> struct Foo {
> int i;
> char[] str;
> long j;
> };
>
> The Sender and Receiver were tied into explicitly
> knowing about Foo's structure - and so were considered
> tightly coupled, a bad thing.
>
> With XML, one is sending the description together with
> the data in a tagged text file. However, in most cases
> of data transfer, the code of both Sender and Receiver
> still has to know the structure of Foo especially when
> parsing the data file. So how is it more flexible or
> even better? (apart from endian stuff)
> thanks,
> Anil Philip
> -
>
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