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Dare Obasanjo wrote: >>From: Bob Foster [mailto:bob@o...] >>So if one called it BML and wrote SAX and DOM APIs to read >>and write it, you'd be happy with it? > > I don't understand this obsession with SAX and DOM. As APIs go they both > [expletive deleted][0,1]. Why would anyone come up with a simplified binary format then > decide to cruft it up by layering a crufty XML API on it is beyond me. I have to say I love that answer! But seriously folks, if a different, perhaps non-text format didn't call itself XML but went to the trouble to be compatible with XML APIs, would that be a bad thing? Would it bring on the end of western civilization as we know it? (Would that be a bad thing?) Bob Foster > [0] > http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/01/31/sax-the-bad- > the-good-and-the-controversial/ > [1] http://www.artima.com/intv/dom.html
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