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>I'm curious, not trying to second-guess anyone or pontificate any more
>... are there any commercially interesting platforms that have
>decent development tools and networking tools, but don't have XML
parsers
>readily available?
Well if you consider Rebol as a platform as well as a programming
language, which one can come to do quite easily, I would say yeah,
insofar as the built in XML datatype with Rebol is not conformant,
although Gavin Mckenzie has improved upon that at
http://www3.sympatico.ca/gavin.mckenzie/ and
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-December/001709.html ,
which is widespread enough in the community. At any rate the situation
exists with Rebol where it is easy to build to improper XML, and to
consume improper XML, using the more readily accessible tools in the
language/platform.
Aside from that Rebol doesn't have a lot of the associated technologies
that we come to depend on with XML(no DOM, no SAX, no xpath in Rebol, no
native Rebol xslt processor), so you can't just move your favorite
processing methodologies over as I have found :( of course Rebol still
has quite a bit of that "built it if you want it" spirit, always
assuming one has the time and who has that anymore?(Actually I have
ambitions to do so for some things, I'm just overworked, but otherwise
Rebol is a very cool language).
Other than that I would suppose Xml is ubiquitous.
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