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Celebrate the XML Decade
IdaAshley writes "IBM Systems Journal recently published an issue dedicated to XML's 10th anniversary. Take a look at XML application techniques, and general discussion of the technical, economic and even cultural effects of XML. Learn why XML has been successful, and what it would take for XML to continue its success."
I started this morning by talking to everyone in XML.
I hope the black eye my coworker gave me heals before my presentation to the CTO tomorrow morning
My work here is dung.
... and most "enterprisey" Java developers have never met a problem that couldn't be fixed with more XML.
This year I'll be sending out christmas cards in XML and then placing a large banner outside my house with the appropriate schema.
//recipient[@name='mum']
Then with every following year, I'll be sending a stylesheet card which they can apply to the original XML.
And if they need to locate their names on the card, they can use
Task Mangler
When does a broken link constitute "Informative"?
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
This is slashdot. Nobody reads the links.
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Wait... let me figure this one out...
MCMXC was 1990...
MDCCCLX was 1860...
I give up! Which decade was XML?
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
Really...
We all needed to leave the first post in this to the guy with
the sig
"XML is like violence, if it doenst fix the problem, you arent using enough"
Or words to that effect.
emt 377 emt 4
It would be too easy to mistake one brace for another, especially when there are several tags
I hack LISP, you insensitive clod!
"No, it's a spec for text markup."
"First, in spite of it's name, XML is not a markup language; rather it's a toolkit for creating, shaping, and using markup languages."
[Source: ISBN:0-596-00046-4]
"Rampant spec abuse. 10 years old and still looking for a problem to solve."
Then don't use it. I'm certain your indian replacement will not have any such issues.
<greeting type="friendly">Hello, fellow coworker type dude!</greeting>
<response type="violent">Have a black eye!</response>
</conversation>
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
Eh, what do I know? Maybe it is that bad. =)
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Al Gore declaims the same every anniversary of the Internet.
If you post it, they will read.
Care to share the DTD and schema you used for that?
Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est. Omnes castelli tuus nostri sunt. Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
I took the liberty of revising the format a little, is this better?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>o n"
<conversation
xmlns="http://slashdot.org/sarcasm/XML/conversati
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<participants>
<participant>
<short-name>OP</short-name>
<full-name>Original poster</full-name>
</participant>
<participant>
<short-name>CW</short-name>
<full-name>Unwitting coworker</full-name>
</participant>
</participants>
<relationships>
<two-way-relationship name="coworker">
<person>OP</person>
<person>CW</person>
</two-way-relationship>
</relationships>
<greeting time="2006-11-17T10:12:10Z" speaker="OP" targets="CW">
<type>
<demeanour>friendly</demeanour>
</type>
<speech>
<text type="text/plain">
Hello, fellow coworker type dude!
</text>
</speech>
</greeting>
<response time="2006-11-17T10:12:34Z" speaker="CW" targets="OP">
<type>
<demeanour>angry</demeanour>
<context>
<divorce type="messy"/>
<custody-battle type="messy"/>
</context>
</type>
<speech>
<text type="application/xhtml+xml">
Have a <html:em>black eye</html:em>!
</text>
</speech>
<action>
<punch>
<recipient>OP</recipient>
<aim>eye</aim>
</punch>
</action>
</response>
</conversation>
I'm sort of disappointed that I only got to use two namespaces. Can't get indentation to work either, unfortunately.
I'd try to be modest too if people blamed me for XML :P