Re: [xml-dev] [Fwd: Re: The 11-pound solution (fwd)]

[Mike Champion <mc@xegesis.org>]

9/13/2002 5:19:56 AM, "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@alaric-snell.com> wrote:

  

>
>So how about we stop trying to [ab]use XML for data and just bind an XSLT 
>engine to a nice XER (http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/xml/) codec, if you REALLY 
>want XSLT 

Beccause throwing hardware at the problem is so much cheaper?  Because the
network effect favors generic, inefficient technologies over 
specialized, efficient ones? 

<pontification flame-bait="true">XML is worse than ASN.1 for network protocols.
Worse is better.  Deal with it.</pontification>