On Wednesday 16 January 2002 09:48 am, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>  That's exactly what I do think. Embedding meta-data within data
>  offers huge advantages. Debugging's just one of them. XML formats
>  are more robust. They are easier to author. They are easier to edit.
>  They are fail-fast. They make it very easy to find and fix problems
>  when they do arise. They are easier to extend into non-tabular
>  structures. They are better in a very real sense. That's why people
>  use them.

Hype. Go look at InstallShield's XML projects. For every 1 good use of 
XML, these is at least 1 that is bad.

>  I'm not totally convinced that XML is quite as semantically opaque
>  to a computer as you think, but even granting that we have two
>  formats which are the same to a computer but one is significantly
>  better for people. Guess which one I choose?

Again though, it depends on the use. I've seen so much *garbage* in 
XML recently that it makes me quite ill.

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