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Re: XML and ConciseXML

• To: "bryan" <bry@i...>
• Subject: Re: XML and ConciseXML
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:26:24 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "bryan" <bry@i...> of "Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:57:20 +0100." <001a01c2c061$f1874510$2001a8c0@bryans>
• Sender: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>

> 
> mplusch@c... wrote:
> >Isn't there anyone out there who thinks it
> >is ridiculous to have a syntax that uses
> >126 characters to express an integer?
> 
> 
> Yes, the person who made this particular bit of markup probably
> shouldn't have.

I don't want to get into this troll-war, but I strongly disgree here.  Who are 
you to say that they shouldn't have marked it up that way?  What do you know 
of the context involved?  If I have an XML schema for employees in a company, 
and in one of the companies represented in such a document there is only one 
employee, it might be expressed as:

<org><employees><employee id="1"><name>Uche Ogbuji</name></employee>
</employees></org>

Someone, coming across this sole document might say "what the hell? why didn't 
they just simplify to "<name>Uche Ogbuji</name>"?

But they would be missing the whole context that the document is meant to 
conform to a schema used in more general situations, and by conforming to that 
schema, even though it is more complex, it allows for general processing by 
tools for that schema.

So a character count, is, IMHO, the sort of methodology for criticizing XML 
that a troll would take up.  And I have a lot of difficulty seeing Mike Plisch 
as anything other.


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Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
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