Re: What's XML's Purpose??

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"" <chrisderson@ameritech.net> wrote in message 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" <brianj@fusionwerks.com> > To: "PHP is not a drug." <php-general@lists.php.net> > 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+íC yX > > LÂaŒ–в‘ > > > > Use the 'next in thread' link to follow the thread. > > > > -Brian > > -- > > PGP is spoken here: 0xE4D0C7C8 > > Please, DO NOT carbon copy me on list replies. > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >