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On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 23:09, Alaric Snell wrote: > On Saturday 26 October 2002 10:43 pm, AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote: > > > I am not sure if I am a "troll" or a "regular" in your comments which I > > chose not to quote. :) Since I was rude enough to accuse someone else, I feel impelled to comment here. Alaric, I do not think of you as a troll, because you are someone looking for the *uses* of XML (and perhaps finding none), not someone looking for a means to *beat* XML for failing to live up to the impossible hyperbole of marketing departments. In particular, I watch with interest the XML <-> ASN.1 mapping, because someone (you and Olivier) has expressed their sense of its importance. If those someones had, in passing, expressed disdain for XML and a suggestion that it had no roots earlier than 1998, I'd have less respect. XML is a data interchange format, and for that reason (follow the logic, please), a data storage format. It is so because, forty years after the census bureau decides on it, it is still readable (perhaps less so if the DTD is lost, but still somewhat). Amy! -- Amelia A. Lewis amyzing@t... alicorn@m... Yankees are compelled by some mysterious force to imitate Southern accents and they're so damn dumb they don't know the difference beween a Tennessee drawl and a Charleston clip. -- Rita Mae Brown, "Rubyfruit Jungle"
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