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RE: XMLby araqnid (Beadle) |
on Sep 12, 2000 at 17:04 UTC ( [id://32094]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Way overhyped, I agree- but largely because it's misunderstood.
Istr once reading in a "quick explanation of XML" (can't remember where precisely it was, sorry) that the author made the point that programmers often design file formats without hardly thinking about it: configuration files, state files, document files... The point is, XML allows for a common structure for most of these one-time formats that autmatically gives benefits such as:
( as an example (or indeed a shameless plug), I wrote make_photos which uses XML as an input file- and imho it's perfectly suited, and much better than the text file I used for the script's first incarnation) I think that most of the "XML Powering YOUR Website!" stuff applies to technology built on top of XML, not XML itself. Which is misleading, but fairly typical marketroid-speak.
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