Re: What's XML's Purpose??

amen brother! ""Plutarck"" <aemuli@spamclause-yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9baam8$6sh$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... > I use to be really enthusiastically pro-XML just as I was getting into PHP, > but now I've basically taken a "XML shmexXML" approach. I get the initial > attraction, but I would think the love would fade off a bit. > > The key that so many people seem to forget is the best way to do HTML is > with, *gasp*, HTML! > > If you just want a webpage, XML is using a canon to kill a fly. It's like > creating classes and objects in PHP for sending text emails. > > Sure you can do it...but why? > > XML is new. Common society doesn't do well with new. They always manage to > screw it up somehow. > > XML started as an extensible markup language...that's it. That's all it was > supposed to do! Now people are using it to query databases, and concoct > entire search engines, and they are trying to use it to control access to > restricted data, etc etc. > > It's the same thing that happened with Java. People just aren't good with > "new". > > > XML is nice, and for some things it's even great. But it's not the death of > plain old HTML, just like ISDN didn't kill POTS (remember when ISDN was "the > future of telecom"?). > > I fear that there are too many cooks in the kitchen on XML, all with a > seasoning all their own that they are dead set on adding to the broth. > > > But for me, I say let people play with their Java and XML and new fangled > widgets. I'll take my PHP and plain-old HTML, and I'll create twice as much > material with just as high a quality, and I won't need to spend an extra > minute learning a bleeding-edge technology. > > Life's too short to spend it learning how to live it. Translation: Better to > program than to learn yet _another_ language. > > > -- > Plutarck > Should be working on something... > ...but forgot what it was. > > > ""Chris Anderson"" <chrisderson@ameritech.net> wrote in message > news:002001c0c506$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 > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > 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 >