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Aah Simon, you keep dancing this dance. To most programmers [in fact to almost every one I've interacted with] XML is about structured data not about markup. Those of us who cater to programmers want to make their lives easier and APIs like the W3C DOM and SAX do not go far enough. -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] Sent: Thu 1/16/2003 8:09 AM To: xml-dev@l... Cc: Subject: RE: Adam Bosworth Article - what does "direct access" mean? dareo@m... (Dare Obasanjo) writes: >XML-DEVers sure like to go off the deep end when someone challenges >their sacred cow. I think it's a side-effect of watching people who claim they have a clue about XML demonstrate repeatedly that the only way they see XML is through glasses that have nothing to do with markup. Bosworth keeps saying what programmers want to hear, whether or not it makes any sense for the non-programming medium he's supposedly describing. It's about as exciting as listening to Joe Lieberman talk about what's wrong with television. At least I haven't seen Bosworth make any grand claims to have "the essence of XML". -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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