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On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
On 2013 Jun 3, at 12:12, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com> wrote: o_O And we wonder why developers come to detest XML! Who the heck suggests such a Rube Goldberg as the way to go? The problem statement was "extracting the <title> and product/@id values from some xml." That's about 5 lines of code and 5 minutes (admittedly to one who knows it) in Amara, and just to make the point with another toolkit, I bet it's no harder with David Lee's xmlsh. If we as a community insist on only ever teaching developers difficult ways of dealing with XML, I guess what do we expect?
Agreed, but let's admit it. Callback programming is hard, and most developers don't get it right either, continuing the expensive-breakage problem. Myself, I can see _some_ rationale for generating code from XSchemas, in specialised circumstances, but generally I guess it would be a tooling-rich way to produce large quantities of rubbish black-box code. +1 "rubbish black-box code" is a great way to describe what XML Schema-driven toolkits tend to produce. Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com http://wearekin.org http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ http://copia.ogbuji.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji http://twitter.com/uogbuji
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