If XML is so popular…

March 14th, 2007

…and if if it an open standard… how come every time I come to work with it…

  • I can only find HUGE proprietary apps on (macos x)
  • I get an icky feeling in my stomach
  • Even the eclipse plugin kinda sucks

XML is fab until you actually want to use it… or is that just me?

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  1. Stephen Downes says:

    March 21st, 2007 at 12:16 am (#)

    Not just you. XML is reaching a crisis point.

  2. Jack Small says:

    March 22nd, 2007 at 1:57 am (#)

    Here, here! I can hardly read it, the machine can hardly parse it, what was the point again?

    Remember when apps would publish the file formats in the Appendix?!

  3. tom says:

    March 22nd, 2007 at 10:20 am (#)

    XML was/is a fab scam, I totally fell for the idea. Especially the DTD idea, where, before you start reading a file you can “know” whether or not that the data is what it is meant to be.

    The “best” bit of XML, for me, is XMLRPC where I never ever touch the XML in python and just deal with things I’m used to like strings, lists, dictonaries etc (regardless of what language I’m using).

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