Re: AW: [PHP] What's your call on XML?

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Sebastian Stadtlich wrote: > Forget about XML... it sucks... > right now i can't imagine one Projekt on this earth that would need XML. > don't ever think about replacing your database with XML-Files. > one thing that XML clains to be perfect in is in exchanging data files... > what's wrong with a SQL-Dump or a textfile which structure you know? ( > basically > that is what XML is all about).. > Sebastian > p.s: if i'm wrong please someone point me to a projekt that was done in XML > and could > not be done significantly faster with a Database...... You're wrong. XML provides an important link between apps that have nothing whatsoever in common. They can be using different databases, OS's, and programming languages, and XML will be just as easy to work with as it would be if everything in the world ran the same software. Sure, you could write your own flat files with their own custom structure, and tell everybody how to parse it, but XML has removed that step. As a result, if you write your app to use XML, it will always be useful, automatically, by any platform that supports XML. So I ask, why on earth would you still want to create your own custom format when XML is there, powerful, and rapidly becoming a standard? Matt