[Omaha.pm] database -> XML
George Neill
georgen at neillnet.com
Sat May 5 19:48:08 PDT 2007
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.
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