From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:57:57 +0000 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <0AD1B4D8ECAB00A0E8086382@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <5d375e920811251434j59a97f44h473bbc13f550a14@mail.gmail.com> References: <32d987d50811251240t1c1f78bch5b7a78d4f8cd1ac3@mail.gmail.com> <5d375e920811251434j59a97f44h473bbc13f550a14@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] xml2 and APE Topicbox-Message-UUID: 52e8ce46-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Again, just say *no* to xml, even the web 2.0 fools have given it up. I agree. Web 2.0 is for fools. I don't agree. Say yes to XML because you have to say yes to some markup language anyway. Why not give the yes to an eXtensible one with a zillion applications already, from TEI to DocBook to DITA to RSS to what have you? And don't tell me you had SGML in mind. --On Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:34 PM +0100 Uriel wrote: > xml? Just say *no*. > > And BTW, steve's libxml is far from usable and doesn't really > implement the complete standard (but who can blame him? the libxml2 > people have been working on their implementation for years, and it is > still full of bugs and security issues, not to mention insanely slow). > > Again, just say *no* to xml, even the web 2.0 fools have given it up. > > uriel > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Federico G. Benavento > wrote: >> hola, >> >>> I was wondering if I have to use all the APE to use the library for >>> writing a Plan 9 application. >> >> as it says it's an APE port, that means you have to use the APE api with >> it, I see no point in writing a native app using libxml2, if I needed to >> doing some xml I'd use something like steve's libxml >> >> /n/sources/contrib/steve/libxml.tar >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Federico G. Benavento >> >> >