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Solution or stopgap?
XML is being used widely not because it rules, but to solve problems involving communication of data.
When XML has obvious flaws, it's difficult to think that something better won't be devised and implemented.

You see the issues, but believe that the problems can be mitigated sufficently to allow XML to continue in the role designated for it.

Why not consider it temporary, and thus a waste of time, unless the problems it solves are so severe that a temporary solution must be rushed into place and supported?
Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 09/06/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Solution or stopgap?  Anton Philidor | 09/06/05
How long is temporary?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/06/05
Where XML should be used  george_ou | 09/06/05
Question..  Patrick Jones | 09/06/05
Very funny  george_ou | 09/06/05
Not really  Patrick Jones | 09/06/05
Binary is orders of magnitude faster  george_ou | 09/07/05
Word doesn't create compressed XML files so I can't check it  Patrick Jones | 09/07/05
ONLY 20-30 seconds?  tmurph1810 | 09/07/05
One day a year is not bad...  Patrick Jones | 09/07/05
Suggestion  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/07/05
Not even close to scientific  george_ou | 09/07/05
A 30M file is too small?!?  Patrick Jones | 09/07/05
Wrong question/focus  Robert Crocker | 09/06/05
Use some common sense  george_ou | 09/06/05
Perhaps...  Zinoron | 09/06/05
Wrong analogy  furballtipster | 09/06/05
Small-angle approximation  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/06/05
Your suggestions are ludicrous  george_ou | 09/06/05
George - you don't know what you are talking about  Tsu Dho Nimh | 09/06/05
No such thing as "Word for Windows 3.1"  george_ou | 09/06/05
For your edification...  Zinoron | 09/07/05
English, DOC and XLS  george_ou | 09/06/05
De facto standards still change.  Zinoron | 09/07/05
Latin is still well supported  george_ou | 09/07/05
Track record  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/06/05
I'll still have a copy of Office  george_ou | 09/06/05
We have some..  Patrick Jones | 09/06/05
Try this  george_ou | 09/06/05
Gee I didn't think about that.  Patrick Jones | 09/07/05
As far as I know  furballtipster | 09/07/05
Furball, I am not blaming Microsoft  Patrick Jones | 09/07/05
I'm not defending MS either.  furballtipster | 09/07/05
Good law  george_ou | 09/07/05
You going to keep a computer too?  Robert Crocker | 09/07/05
Rediculous  george_ou | 09/07/05
Head in sand?  Robert Crocker | 09/08/05
Are you kidding?  Robert Crocker | 09/07/05
The Answer Is  furballtipster | 09/07/05
Thanks for agreeing  Robert Crocker | 09/07/05
Some thoughts  JJ_z | 09/06/05
Developers and data management  jorwell | 09/07/05
Datum: Bloated XML  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/06/05
Not sure if that's a fair example  george_ou | 09/06/05
Context  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/06/05
Semantics and Coding Theory  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/06/05
Great rationalization for bloat  george_ou | 09/06/05
Excellent, George  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/07/05
Talking about spread sheets and databases  george_ou | 09/07/05
More data  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/07/05
Depends on the spread sheet  george_ou | 09/07/05
Examples?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/07/05
I've given you all the explaination you need  george_ou | 09/07/05
I did one  Patrick Jones | 09/07/05
How many people use ZIP?  george_ou | 09/08/05
Massive speed benefit for XLS format  george_ou | 09/08/05
Zip has to be used by many  Patrick Jones | 09/08/05
Worth celebrating  Richard Flude | 09/06/05
XML put in its place?  jorwell | 09/07/05
XML's horrendous complexity  jorwell | 09/07/05
I truly wonder...  furballtipster | 09/07/05
Ah yes, security  jorwell | 09/07/05
Actually,  Patrick Jones | 09/07/05
Did I say Word was any better?  jorwell | 09/07/05
No, you didn't  Patrick Jones | 09/07/05
Correction  jorwell | 09/07/05
Starting the REAL "r"evolution?  furballtipster | 09/07/05
Agreed (nt)  george_ou | 09/07/05
Funny you should suggest that  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/07/05
I said...  furballtipster | 09/07/05
Sort of  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/07/05
That is exactly  furballtipster | 09/07/05
XML doc. format would've helped me out  Mark Miller | 09/08/05
You should have tried CSV  george_ou | 09/08/05
Why use Esperanto light?  Robert Crocker | 09/08/05
KISS principle  george_ou | 09/08/05
The problem with CSV  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/08/05
Because XML is too big and slow for spread sheets  george_ou | 09/08/05
I agree. Smaller, simpler format would've been nice, but...  Mark Miller | 09/08/05
That's a good point  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/08/05
In addition...  Mark Miller | 09/08/05
The problem with CSV  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/08/05

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