From: "Trickey, Howard W (Howard)" <trickey@lucent.com>
To: "'9fans@cse.psu.edu'" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] don't shoot me
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:45:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D691F041928C1049808A0670D2252BE00428B3C8@nj9620exch001u.mh.lucent.com> (raw)
Lucio De Re wrote:
> I like XML as an information exchange language for diverse platforms.
> Being as vast as it is, it no doubt will be abused more often than
> properly employed. But I am not aware of any preferable alternative
> (ASN.1?).
I agree with this. ASN.1 is an alternative, but it sucks much worse.
But it is disappointing that the XML spec is so large that you can't just whip up a parser for the whole thing in a few hundred lines. I think there are three reasons for this:
1) it tries to represent two quite different kinds of data: marked up text (like HTML, SGML), and tree-structured data. The need for the former introduces all sorts of whitespace worries that just muck things up for the latter.
2) 'attributes' are perhaps a convenient shorthand, but could have (and should have, in my opinion) been left out
3) the namespace stuff vastly complicates things for not a lot of gain
- Howard
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2003-07-21 15:40 Stephen Parker
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2003-07-18 17:00 ` steve.simon
2003-07-18 15:12 pac
2003-07-18 15:17 ` Lucio De Re
2003-07-18 19:15 ` Scott Schwartz
2003-07-18 19:34 ` ron minnich
2003-07-18 20:34 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-18 21:10 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-18 21:51 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-07-18 21:58 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-21 8:28 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-21 8:50 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-21 15:09 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-18 21:13 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-18 15:17 ` ron minnich
2003-07-18 15:23 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-07-18 15:50 ` Dave Lukes
2003-07-18 17:43 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-19 3:12 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-07-19 3:45 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-19 3:48 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-19 4:11 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-19 4:15 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-21 8:28 ` Anthony Mandic
2003-07-21 8:57 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-19 4:18 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-19 4:20 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-07-19 4:26 ` boyd, rounin
2003-08-12 16:09 ` jared jennings
2003-07-18 16:55 ` David Presotto
2003-07-18 17:02 ` ron minnich
2003-07-18 18:22 ` Nigel Roles
2003-07-21 8:27 ` Anthony Mandic
2003-07-18 17:10 ` matt
2003-07-19 6:45 ` Taj Khattra
2003-07-19 6:51 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-19 11:19 ` Bruce Ellis
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