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Elliotte Harold wrote: > Kurt Cagle wrote: >> I've also found that many employers have stopped listing XML in their >> advertisements, not because they don't need that skill, but because >> they assume that working with XML is something that you should just >> know if you work with most computer languages. > > These employers may be overly optimistic. Last night I gave an > advanced XML presentation to a large audience of uber-geek Linux > folks. Based on post-talk discussion, I suspect only about 30-40% were > reasonably conversant with XML prior to that evening. If I'd realized > that in advance I would have pitched the talk at a slightly lower > level. It's certainly true that XML is more broadly understood in the > community than it was five years ago. However, I don't think it's yet > reached the level of ubiquity of C or Java. A quick search of a typical job search engine (http://www.jobserve.com/) reveals: "xml": 1880 matching jobs "java": 3467 matching jobs "c": 1244 matching jobs -- Chris Burdess
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