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> -----Original Message----- > From: David Lyon [mailto:david@g...] > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:10 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut > > > Flame me, Flame me, xml is getting very dull XML always was very dull. SGML is mind numbing. It's more fun to write code to solve problems that had been solved thousands of times before, adding new tweaks every time to make it necessary to write even more code whenever the systems have to interoperate. But for some reason, the greedy fools who run businesses don't WANT to pay us geeks to do this, so they make us use simple, standardized grammars, parsers, APIs, transformation engines, constraint satisfaction validators, etc. when megabytes of custom code would work slightly better sometimes. Worse yet, this stuff *is* infesting the infrastructures of pizza chains and other such companies. It's just so utterly bor-ING that nobody talks about it. Re-writing an order entry application for every mobile device would be more interesting: we could learn arcane details of soon-to-be-obsolete environments and entertain each other with parties about the fascinating differences between the screen display routines of Nokia and Motorla phones, or Pocket PC and Palm PDAs. But no, the damned XML people want to put the same old XHTML or WML rot everywhere. The real [expletive deleted] is this SOAP stuff. REAL nerds could get different CORBA impelementations to interoperate after only a month or two, and maybe patch together some COM interoperability in a year ... and keep it all running for days at a time (as long as the stupid sysadmins didn't mess with those firewall things). But now they want to just leverage HTTP to do all this and send XML messages around! How totally inefficient! Why, I bet this must bring the average load on my server CPUs up to 5% or so, and make me waste my precious internet bandwidth on stupid business messages. My MP3 and JPEG downloads are measurably slower now. Anyway, I hear ya!
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