XML Is Too Hard, Part 2

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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XML is our futures

[Miguel de Icaza]

check out the work we've been doing with MS XML. This stuff isn't intended to be read by humans - jesus I was working on transforming an office 2003 document last night and it was really hard work - but worth it! Just the other day I was told that the next version of direct3D will have an XML compatability layer to enable it to be used as a web-service or wrapped up in a .NET program that mono over gtk# could run -how cool is that. Christ I want my next bread-toater to support XML even ;^)