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 Derek Denny-Brown wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jborden@m...] > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 2:59 PM > To: Mike Champion; xml-dev@l... > Subject: XML is easy, was: Re: SV: XML=WAP? And DOA? ... > > XML is easy. It is the problems people are trying to address with XML that > are hard. Given the amount of time I spend explaining 'simple' Namespace, XPath, XSD, DTD, etc.. issues to people, I would fall heavily on the 'not easy' side of the issue. It is 'easy' if you take the time to sit down and study it and think about it. -- I cannot speak for everyone, but from personal experience, I found that using XML and related technologies simplified projects I was working on. I think it is much like the speed of Microsoft Word. I would guess that from day 1, the speed of Word has remained roughly constant, despite the dramatic increase in processor Mhz, memory and disc capacity. This is because, obviously, the faster the computer we have, the more we ask of it (and the less efficient we need to be). Granted if XML is simple, when you add Namespaces, XPath, XSD and DTDs it gets complex. A big reason is that (apparently) there has been a conscious decision not to make DTDs compatible with Namespaces. So you get either technical tour de forces, or monstrosities, depending on one's viewpoint, such as XHTML Modularization. Well in any case we are asking more and more. If we don't need XPath/XSLT/XLink/XHTML/XSD etc etc., then why not simply use XML 1.0? Because it is not enough, itself. ----- ..... Part of my job ends up being to convince people that XML really is complex enough to mandate using existing tools, rather than rolling-your-own. ------ :-))) right, and hence your bias, but thanks for admiting it. My bias is that we should get people using only what is needed, rather than the fanciest latest greatest and most complex way of solving the problem. Again, perhaps this is just my own experience, but having spent a few years debugging the nitty gritty details of binary distributed RPCs protocols, and needing a fancy system debugger that can trace an execution path all the way into the the Win32 kernel and back out, or trying to figure out the details of why a distributed MTS transaction was hanging, XML is a breath of fresh air. YMMMV Jonathan 
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