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Tim Bray on the Birth of XML, 10 Years Later
lazyguyuk writes "Tim Bray posts a lengthy blog on the birth of XML, formalized as 1.0 in Feb 1998. 'XML is ten years old today. It feels like yesterday, or a lifetime. I wrote this that year (1998). It's really long. The title was originally Good Luck and Internet Plumbing but the filename was "XML-People" and I decided I liked that better. I never got around to publishing it, so why not now?'"
In defense of XML, the parsing problem is handled.
Best wishes on solving the semantic snarls.
XML, like all good approaches, handles mechanism, not policy.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
I have, and I can tell you that it's a waste of time.
It amazes me how something that looks so simple can have so many corner cases, and how they can be solved so differently by different implementations.
CSV is fine if you want to store data that has no quote marks, commas, carriage returns or linefeeds. For everything else, please use a better specified format, preferably one that has a formal definition. Like XML, for example.
Does my bum look big in this?