Re: [DotGNU]Disadvantages of XML

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Rhys Weatherley wrote:

> At the end of the day, it is easier to just gzip it and forget about
> the problem.  No data loss, and roughly the same level of

I'll just agree with pnetexpert here :]. Just going back to the original 
problem, the whole point of using XML is so we can encode the data and forget 
about it. Also, when you consider all the cycles web browsers do to gracefully 
degrade "static HTML" (which reporter found so wonderful), XML doesn't seem so bad.

We're looking at XML use here that isn't manual, but computer-generated. There 
should be no real need for extra error handling; if there is an error in the 
XML, that is a bug in the producing program, and the other side SHOULD NOT 
degrade gracefully, so that the writer of said program recognizes a problem. 
That is one problem with HTML in general: site designers aren't held to 
anything near the kind of syntax standards that programmers deal with. If all 
browsers just spit out interpretor errors when encountering poorly formed 
sites, the world would be a better place ;-).

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