• To: elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
• Subject: Re: Article: "The horror of XML"
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:05:49 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... (xml-dev)
• In-reply-to: <p04330100b9e5cab4ae47@[192.168.254.4]> from "Elliotte Rusty Harold" at Oct 30, 2002 12:47:52 PM

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> You don't have to 
> accept documents from arbitrary sources to accept documents from 
> coworkers, other groups, customers, vendors, contractors, and others 
> who may or may not send you what you expect.

Granted.  I always send myself what I expect, though.  As for "why use
XML at all", because there are downstream people who expect it -- my
fgrep reads and routes but does not in any way consume the XML.

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