Actually, on further reflection, I remembered why I quit using Java
to process XML.
Joshua Bloch's Effective Java gave really similar advice about
programming Java - enumerations over strings, strict structures over
variable structures, and so on. About halfway through the book I
realized I was carving myself out a personal exception to all of
those things, so sat down to look at my code.
Was I crazy? (Well, maybe that's a separate question.)
My conclusion, though, was that that his set of recommendations
might make sense in a strictly programming context, but they were
counter-productive for dealing with the rich possibilities of XML
and markup generally.
So sure, yes, you can do this. It probably just isn't appropriate
to the practice of markup.
Thanks,
Simon
On 9/23/2015 8:23 AM, Simon St.Laurent
wrote:
On 9/23/2015 7:27 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
Sounds great for the post-human world, but could you wait until
then?
Yeesh.
Thanks,
Simon St.Laurent
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