Re: Obsessive Compulsive XMLing

Tim Tyler <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm still having a hard time seeing the problem he is referring to.

Indeed. Writing an Ant script from scratch is not really hard. What
could be somewhat harder is writing XML with stricter DTDs like
web.xml's. That said:

1) Users of a language that uses { for begin, } for end, & for and, |
for or etc. should not complain about the occasional <tag> in data.
If you are going to complain about XML you should be writing in
PL/SQL, Pascal, Lisp or something.
2) XML beats the alternatives.
2.1) Binary data is more compact, but more susceptible to corruption.
It's also less manageable when it comes to versioning: XML can
let you mix-in elements from different "versions" of a protocol
using namespaces.
2.2) It's data instead of code. One of the side-effects of dropping
XML for annotations in EJB 3.0 will be that the code needs to be
recompiled when you make a small change

Now, designing Swing GUI apps without a visual designer, that is ebil.
Discuss.
.

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