From: "R. Mark Volkmann" Date: 2005-01-06T00:40:06+09:00 Subject: Re: evil XML? Quoting Premshree Pillai : > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:53:37 +0900, R. Mark Volkmann wrote: > > I changed the subject because this has really gone off topic. > > > > Quoting "Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira Jr." : > > > > > | Ruby culture says: keep it simple, keep it short, keep away from XML. > > > > > > This XML stuff is weird. Seems that a lot of people have a bad idea about > > > it because of the *huge* XML files a lot of Java stuff needs. I agree > that > > > there's a lot of mess around there, a lot of no necessary complexity, but > > > this kind of generalization is not healthy. > > > > > > I know YAML is very, very more simple than XML, but XML is helping us to > > > make the web more well-designed and with more semantics. > > > > > > Try to give a look on XML with XSLT, it can make some cool stuff. > > > > XML can be much less verbose if you use attributes instead of child > elements > > when the data they hold is a simple value as opposed to a paragraph of > text. > > Well, you can't attribute that as _XML's_ fault, can you? I mean it's > upto the person who implements the thing to decide what the right way > to do it is. Exactly right. Pretty much any tool can be abused. I'll bet it's even possible to write bad Ruby code. ;-) -- R. Mark Volkmann Partner, Object Computing, Inc.