Comments on: If XML is so popular…

By: tom

tom — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:20:49 +0000

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).

By: Jack Small

Jack Small — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:57:23 +0000

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?!

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:16:56 +0000

Not just you. XML is reaching a crisis point.