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Any system depending on a Draconian parse to
ensure its stability is fragile. Limiting the
modality limits the application. XML forces
every other datatype and format to work with
it on XML's terms, what I used to call the
pine tree effect of markup (nothing thrives
around pines but other pines). XML is fragile
and like most fragile things, requires careful
attention. When a programmer asks to do what
they consider a reasonable thing, eg, inlining
binaries, they are told they can't do that very
easily or safely. That is fragility.
It doesn't mean it won't perform. The space
shuttle is fragile. It performs quite well
until it doesn't. One of the problems of
what just occurred was managers refusing to
accept despite what engineers were telling them
that a piece of styrofoam could take it down.
len
From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@comcast.net]
[Bullard, Claude L (Len)]
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> If one wants to do more (eg, stuffing inlined
> binaries), the fragility of XML starts to out
I do not see it as fragility of XML. It is when you stick in binary data
and some of the other things that it gets fragile. XML as it is now seems to
be pretty robust, not fragile - especially since we can edit it with the
good old text editor. Even modulo external parsed entities, not fragile.
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