Re: [xml-dev] If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd be
better off as a crossing guard
by Robin Berjon other posts by this author
Mar 28 2003 4:40PM messages near this date
Re: [xml-dev] Re: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd
be better off as a crossing guard
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Re: [xml-dev] If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd b e better off as a crossing guard
Tim Bray wrote:
> Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> > The "Desperate Perl Hacker" argument was a bogus claim for XML 1.0
> > because of the existence of entities and CDATA sections but is quite
> > farcical now with the existence of the Namespaces in XML
> > recommendation (and it's bastard spawn "QNames in content").
>
> Empirically false, at two levels. First, lots of people process XML
> with perl (or equivalent) all the time. Second, the real requirement
> was to make it tractable to take a large body of document data and make
> quick programmatic changes on it.
Indeed, the simple fact that people are doing SAX filtering in the archetypal
Perl one-liners shows that the DPH argument has had its effect. There's work on
making the situation even better, and the Perl 6 people are discussing very
interesting things relating to XML.
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Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@[...].fr>
Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/
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