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• Subject: RE: XML too hard for programmers?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:14:11 -0500
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dareo@m... (Dare Obasanjo) writes:
>I read it. It reminds me of Joe Gregorio's posts on Regex-able XML[0,1] 
>which makes similar complaints about working with XML that point to 
>problems with APIs as opposed to problems with XML. Most of the suckage 
>in XML is abstracted away by the XML Infoset and the technologies for 
>processing infosets. If anything my top 15 list would mostly be 
>complaints about APIs and maybe a gripe or two about QNames in content. 

Answering requests for regex-able XML with a claim that "most of the
suckage in XML is abstracted away by the Infoset" is a remarkable way of
illustrating the great divides in XML today.  Thank you!

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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