[XML-SIG] Tim Bray on XML
Mark Bucciarelli
mark@easymailings.com
Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:48:59 -0500
In case you missed today's post on Slashdot ...
XML Is Too Hard For Programmers
by Tim Bray
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/16/XML-Prog
So, how does he parse xml? Using regexp!
Other points: he finds callback (SAX, I guess) painful, and suggests creating
a new idiom for stream processing of XML, one that "abstracts away all the
XML syntax weirdness, igoring line-breaks, attribute orders, choice of
quotemakrs and so on."
Mark