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> Was I ever wrong. For a while I thought that the widespread use of a
> few XML processors was evidence of a design failure in XML, i.e. anyone
> should have been able to roll their own. On reflection, even if you
> took the cruft out of XML (entities, etc) I think that outsourcing
> processing would have been the way to go. A few of the really valuable
> things about XML, especially efficient Unicode processing, turn out to
> be hard enough that you would like to avoid writing the code if you can.
> Also using a processor has the considerable advantage that you don't
> have to invent your own API. -Tim
thank you soooo much! i was hoping that somebody finally stop the "all
we ever needes and ever will need is markup, everything else is too
complex and hence unnecessary" fundamentalists. software re-use is a
good thing.
cheers,
dret.
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