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> > Remember our dirty perl hacker and the graduate student who is supposed > > to be able to write an XMLparser in a week? That was a big goal initially. > > THe desperate perl hacker was someone trying to write a perl script to > do some basic data massaging to some marked up XML. We never had as a > goal that someone could write an XML parser in perl. I neither said that nor implied it. > As far as the grad student, I believe we were giving them two weeks to > write an XML parser. I think it varied -- the main point was that it wasn't 3 months, I think, and the language has to be straight-forward, simple and self-contained enough the the grad student _wants_ to do the parser. > Finally, let's not die on our own sword here. The main goal is to have > XML be widely accepted. A subgoal of that is to make it relatively > easy to write an XML parser, but it still has to be worthwhile to > write that parser in the first place, or we've lost the war. Yes, that's true, I agree. Lee xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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