[XML-SIG] Developer's Day

[Fredrik Lundh]

Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> wrote:
> > one could say the same (or even more so) for the GUI,
> > but that hasn't exactly helped...
> 
> GUI is a special case because there are no standards there.

oh, there are standards.  Motif is one, for example.
didn't help.  people are still building new stuff on the
fundamental components (xlib, win32 gdi, etc), just
like people will keep on building new XML stuff on
top of simple XML tokenizers (xmllib, expat, sgmlop).

> > but some batteries *are* include: "import xmllib" works
> > just fine in 1.5.2.
> 
> xmllib is not, as far as I know, a legal XML processor and it certainly
> does not support "modern" advances like tree processing, validation,
> defaulted attributes, XML namespaces or SAX. So it isn't legal and it
> isn't modern.

"isn't legal"?

now that's an interesting case of XML snobbery...

    "you're under arrest for using an illegal parser."

    "but sir, my tools work, they're fast as hell, and
    hundreds of people download them every week"

    "we don't care -- we're the XML police, so we
    don't have to".

I'm out of here.

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