RE: [PHP] PHP and XML?
| From: | James Moore | Date: | Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:10:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] PHP and XML? | ||
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> Having looked at XML briefly, I can't honestly see what all the fuss is
> about. It's just yet another way of describing/encoding data
> *and* it takes
> up much more bandwidth too with all those nice <> </> tags. Agreed, it's
> probably very flexible but if two parties agree to exchange
> information in a
> file, then I'm sure a more concise format could be negotiated....ie
> fixed-width fields or pipe-delimited with whitespace trimmed out.
The idea is that the data is described so that no agreement about the data
is needed...
James