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An Overview of Modern XML Processing Techniques and APIs

Posted by timothy on from the three-letters-that-spell-work dept.

Dare Obasanjo writes with a link to his article "A Survey of APIs and Techniques for Processing XML" on xml.net. It starts off "In recent times the landscape of APIs and techniques for processing XML has been in the process of reinventing itself as developers and API designers learn from their experiences and some past mistakes. APIs such as DOM and SAX which used to be the bread and butter of XML APIs are giving way to new models of examining and processing XML. However although some of these techniques have become widespread amongst developers who primarily work with XML they are still unknown to the general body of developers. Nothing highlights this better than a recent article by Tim Bray one of the co-inventors of XML entitled XML is too Hard for Programmers and the subsequent responses on Slashdot." Read the entire article to learn more about the state of the XML art. Added in the missing link.

3 of 40 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No Link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am interested in the topic: please fix the post so that we can read the article.

    The fix will be uploaded in a few days but subscribers can click now and beat the rush!

  2. Re:You know... by ComputerSlicer23 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Don't worry, it'll get fixed up on the duplicate post in about 4 hours...

    Kirby

  3. Attributes by Skeme · · Score: 2, Funny

    XML sucks because of attributes. I can have a and a thing and they are treated differently. How pointless that is.

    Plus any drooling idiot can come up with a way to represent a tree in a file. They did that 100 years ago with Lisp.