- From: Michael Sokolov <msokolov@s...>
- To: Pete Cordell <petexmldev@c...>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:29:21 -0500
On 11/15/2013 01:34 PM, Pete Cordell wrote:
Plus I think coding activity (at least traditionally) is all about
organising stuff and constraining chaos. Even on a good day, when
you've dotted all your "I"s and crossed all your "T"s, things rarely
go as well as you'd hope. Thus when something with a "name" parameter
is added to a system they want to quickly answer unequivocally "which
name is that?" and bolt it down as quickly as possible to limit the
increased entropy. The XML practitioners approach seems to be "Yo,
more names. Cool. We'll put you over here to start with, but we might
move you later."
Kind of like getting someone with OCD and a pot smoking hippy to work
together!
There's OCD stuff in the XML world too, and it was there right from the
start, it just has a different flavor: DTD. The whole "DOCTYPE must be
conveyed with the document" religion created the concept of a document
that isn't complete without being processed by its accompanying DTD.
The result is a programmer's nightmare, but makes sense to a certain
kind of document purist.
-Mike
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