Re: advocating XML

[Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>]

<rob>. He feels that a comma-delimited file is better in every visible
way over XML for data storage, and is under the impression that XML
has no
value.

Can anyone help me out a bit here?
</rob>

Buy him a 'Sabot' to throw in his steam driven printing press.

Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Andrews" <randrews@planhouse.com>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 3:40 PM
Subject: advocating XML


> My (web) manager at work has asked me to convince him that XML and
XHTML are
> anything but a waste of time, and I have thus far not succeeded. He
cares,
> but only slightly, that XML can be used to separate data from its
> presentation, and considers XHTML only pointless bloat that he feels
won't
> catch on. He feels that a comma-delimited file is better in every
visible
> way over XML for data storage, and is under the impression that XML
has no
> value.
>
> Can anyone help me out a bit here?
>
> Rob Andrews
>
> Useless Python Repository
> http://www.lowerstandard.com/python/pythonsource.html
>
>
>
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