[Omaha.pm] database -> XML

[George Neill]

Quoting Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com>:

> Even though i argued for using XML in about everything, the verbosity of
> many of XML projects subconsciously drove me away from programming, in
> particular, the XML MS products would spew out.  However, judicious use of
> namespaces would help some.   i remember having  trouble with some of the
> dtd's  when  using a namespace version of an xml doc, so i wasn't able to
> use namespaces back then as much as i would have liked.

You are certainly right on the verbosity topic.

XML certainly has it's place.  I believe it is perfect for  
control/metadata/transactional data; outside of that ... I feel it  
brings too much overhead.

Later,
George.