Re: [xml-dev] bioinformatics, XML

> data sets are already huge) and that most often the schemas are poorly 
> designed and tools poorly implemented. When schemas and tools are designed 
> and implemented well, he approves.
> That last bit doesn't seem too surprising.

Not at all, and in fact it seems a bit odd to blame XML.. We are
currently working on checking the consistency of bioinformatics data,
and I can testify that the schema design is pretty dreadful (the data is
mostly converted ad hoc from relational data as I understand it)

We've basically got files full of CDATA sections that aren't marked up
at all, but still contain structured information (CSV *inside* XML! argh
:) 

Christian Nentwich