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Sunday, July 13, 2003

Understanding XML

Dare Obasanjo has an article at MSDN entitled Understanding XML. It seems to be a great intro to all things XML from someone who's deep in the pile of squishiness that is XML -- his "current day job involves designing a lot of what will be the core XML APIs for the next version of the .NET Framework."

The only thing that bugs me is that as much as I generally dislike XML, I keep talking about it. "XML brings us one step closer to universal data access." -- what does that even mean? That if everything is XML, XML will be universal? God help us.

Also see Lessons from the Component Wars: An XML Manifesto

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NotAnXMLZealot wrote:

Maybe the shred of reality behind sayings like "XML brings us one step closer to universal data access" is that any standard document format used in publicly available files (think rss...) goes a long way to having widespread client-side software that can use those documents. If everyone rolled their own document format for things like that, it's harder on the client-side developers to support them. Maybe? I agree there's too much fuss, but maybe a sprinkle of truth is in there somewhere.

∴ NotAnXMLZealot | 13-Jul-2003 2:28pm est | #2417

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