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XML Is Too Hard, Part 2

Posted by timothy on from the most-things-are-too-hard dept.

orangerobot writes "A new article on XML.com summarizes some of the response from the XML-DEV mailing list to Tim Bray's recent comments about his frustrations with XML. The overall feedback is mixed but several parsing packages are mentioned that satisfy some of Bray's complaints about the difficulty of using DOM and SAX-based APIs. The packages include Pyxie, XML::Filter::Dispatcher and XML::Essex."

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  1. Related rants by madmaxx · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jorn at robotwisdom has been ranting about XML for a years now.

    xmlsucks.org has a whole wiki of xml rants.

    The Advogato has discussed xml evils at least once. There are more rants in the user journals if you've got time to search.

    XML is just a text markup - a very verbose, flexible one at that. It's not much different than a good hammer. Great tool for pounding nails ... but not everything is a nail ...

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    mx