Re: [xml-dev] Partyin' like it's 1999

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>]

On Oct 26, 2004, at 4:49 PM, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> Ok.  Any parties interested in posting their favorite five
> bad problems with XML in order here?  I wonder what the
> consensus is on the top two.  (XML, not XML apps like
> XSD.)

1) Namespaces (who *needs* them?)
2) DTD's (should be broken out of the core)
3) External Entities (not really necessary)
...

Hmmm. It strikes me that most of my complaint vis-a-vis XML are not so 
much with *XML* as the things built around or on top of it.