[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: "In hot summer have I great rejoicing/When the tempests ki

• To: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Subject: Re: "In hot summer have I great rejoicing/When the tempests kill the earth's foul peace"
• From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:32:34 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <EBEPLGMHCDOJJJPCFHEFEELGGOAA.danny666@v...>
• References: <EBEPLGMHCDOJJJPCFHEFEELGGOAA.danny666@v...>

On Thursday 04 July 2002 14:05, you wrote:

> I largely agree with this, but only because it is in the past tense. The
> term 'de facto' springs to mind - if loads more people had spent loads more
> time in developing tools for processing csv files, then csv would be the
> format of choice for interop.

CSV *is* the format of choice for interop! Our clients are quite happy 
providing us with CSV files full of user data, but they've never even *heard* 
of doing that with XML.

It's been like that for years, and doesn't seem to be changing. There isn't 
even any effort to define a common vocabulary for this stuff. We tried making 
our own a while back, but everybody stared at it blankly and said "Right... 
we'll get our technical boys to look at that when they've got a moment. 
Here's a CSV."

So we ditched XML support in the software and haven't looked back!

ABS

• References:
  • RE: "In hot summer have I great rejoicing/When the tempests kill the earth's foul peace"
    • From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>

• Prev by Date: RE: "In hot summer have I great rejoicing/When the tempests kill the earth's foul peace"
• Next by Date: Re: "In hot summer have I great rejoicing/When the tempests kill the earth's foul peace"
• Previous by thread: RE: "In hot summer have I great rejoicing/When the tempests kill the earth's foul peace"
• Next by thread: Re: "In hot summer have I great rejoicing/When the tempests kill the earth's foul peace"
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread