Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>>From: Bob Foster [mailto:]
>>So if one called it BML and wrote SAX and DOM APIs to read
>>and write it, you'd be happy with it?
>
> I don't understand this obsession with SAX and DOM. As APIs go they both
> suck[0,1]. Why would anyone come up with a simplified binary format then
> decide to cruft it up by layering a crufty XML API on it is beyond me.
I have to say I love that answer! But seriously folks, if a different,
perhaps non-text format didn't call itself XML but went to the trouble
to be compatible with XML APIs, would that be a bad thing? Would it
bring on the end of western civilization as we know it? (Would that be a
bad thing?)
Bob Foster
> [0]
> http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/01/31/sax-the-bad-
> the-good-and-the-controversial/
> [1] http://www.artima.com/intv/dom.html
