amen brother!
""Plutarck"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I use to be really enthusiastically pro-XML just as I was getting into
PHP,
> but now I've basically taken a "XML shmexXML" approach. I get the initial
> attraction, but I would think the love would fade off a bit.
>
> The key that so many people seem to forget is the best way to do HTML is
> with, *gasp*, HTML!
>
> If you just want a webpage, XML is using a canon to kill a fly. It's like
> creating classes and objects in PHP for sending text emails.
>
> Sure you can do it...but why?
>
> XML is new. Common society doesn't do well with new. They always manage to
> screw it up somehow.
>
> XML started as an extensible markup language...that's it. That's all it
was
> supposed to do! Now people are using it to query databases, and concoct
> entire search engines, and they are trying to use it to control access to
> restricted data, etc etc.
>
> It's the same thing that happened with Java. People just aren't good with
> "new".
>
>
> XML is nice, and for some things it's even great. But it's not the death
of
> plain old HTML, just like ISDN didn't kill POTS (remember when ISDN was
"the
> future of telecom"?).
>
> I fear that there are too many cooks in the kitchen on XML, all with a
> seasoning all their own that they are dead set on adding to the broth.
>
>
> But for me, I say let people play with their Java and XML and new fangled
> widgets. I'll take my PHP and plain-old HTML, and I'll create twice as
much
> material with just as high a quality, and I won't need to spend an extra
> minute learning a bleeding-edge technology.
>
> Life's too short to spend it learning how to live it. Translation: Better
to
> program than to learn yet _another_ language.
>
>
> --
> Plutarck
> Should be working on something...
> ...but forgot what it was.
>
>
> ""Chris Anderson"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> 002001c0c506$c70d7f00$0d1012d1@null">news:002001c0c506$c70d7f00$0d1012d1@null...
> > thanks that helped
> > I stll think it sounds like its more geared for the MS crowd
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "PHP is not a drug." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 3:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??
> >
> >
> > > Hi Chris,
> > >
> > > @ 12:01:45 AM on 4/14/2001, Chris Anderson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Am I missing something here?
> > >
> > > This has been discussed many times. There was an extremely long thread
> > > last year about XML, but I can't find it in the archives.
> > >
> > > Here's a good start:
> > >
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=97969195010857&w=2
> > >
> > > Use the 'next in thread' link to follow the thread.
> > >
> > > -Brian
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> > >
> > >
> > >
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