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On 3/1/11 7:12 AM, Andrew Welch wrote: > Hmm, in my experience when people 'get' that xml is a tree of nodes, > and not a flat string, then everything else falls into place... I suspect that's true for certain categories of programmers - those who don't care much about the syntax but just want to throw things in and out of it. XML-as-API, not XML-as-XML. My experience has left me convinced that while the students might feel better about the experience if they're fed that abstraction, however, they end up learning very little about XML itself - and worse, have a harder time learning it later, in the event that it's necessary. I have, of course, pretty much abandoned the field of teaching XML for a few years, and enjoyed the resulting drop in blood pressure. -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/
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