Re: Usefulness of UML?

From: Dave Moore (silverstar69NOSPAM_at_NOSPAMgmail.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:13:22 -0000

"Ingvar Nilsen" <telcontr@online-not-this-part-.no> wrote in message
news:4242b531@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Dave Moore wrote:
>
>> "Ingvar Nilsen" <telcontr@online-not-this-part-.no> wrote in message
>> news:42428a26@newsgroups.borland.com...
>>
>>> Thirdly, my impression is that there is so many UML courses and so many
>>> UML tools overcomplicating everything and thereby giving UML a
>>> bad reputation. UML is rather simple, used the right way.
>>
>>
>> Yes! Finally, someone has come out and said it. I've always thought of
>> UML as basic object-orientated common-sense, and I've always wondered how
>> a multi-million (billion?) pound/dollar industry has grown out of
>> something which is so obvious and so damn, well, excellent.
>
> Have you seen the XML books, thick as phone books? Almost in the same
> league. Did you ever see an "INI-files Bible"? Well, XML is a little
> more complicated, but not as complicated as some want it to be.

Yes, I have one sitting on my desk. Worthy of being categorised as a "tome".
"Professional XML", its called, a big red book with approximately 1400 pages
by, oh, about fourteen seperate authors. And I've opened and used it about
twice in three years. Because, at the end of it, if you can understand HTML,
you can get XML almost instantly (well, I did).

Best,
Dave

Relevant Pages

  • Re: newbie question
    ... It took me years to figure out what was such a big deal about XML, ... to write huge books about XML as the next big thing.. ... data hierarchically in a format similar to HTML?" ... we are buying marketing terminology.. ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet)
  • Re: A newbies cry for help editing XML document
    ... Private Function myFunction(ByVal strNodeName As String) As String ... > Using VB.NET, VS2003, XML. ... If the title matches my compare string, I need to look for the books' ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.xml)
  • Re: Im wondering if this would be the proper application of XML, XSD and a datagrid
    ... I was debating storing this data in the database with like a StoreMaster ... table and a StoreBooks table but I wantto learn about storing it in XML ... Let's say there are 1000 stores with various amounts of books. ... back to the database but I'm learning alot about XML and XSD right now. ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp)
  • Re: VB.NET: Get the Attribute and Text out from Xml string
    ... I think the .xml is strange. ... Why is the Author tag ... have a <Books> Element enclosing everything else which I found strange. ... > Dim nodeList1 As XmlNodeList ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb)
  • Re: Favorite word processor?
    ... Even FrameMaker ... running in Classic is superior for authoring large books. ... being a FrameMaker shop to being an XML shop using DITA. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.system)