Re: Xquery might have some things right
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:49:01 GMT
Message-ID: <1DM1c.21039$fc.17824_at_newssvr31.news.prodigy.com>
> That's actually a really useful property; "Microsoft Inside" is a
> terrific warning label.
Heh.
> - It uses XML, the only thing that could have been worse than SGML,
> which was a text parsing system designed by people that didn't want
> to understand the theory of language parsers.
Hey, don't blame them - information technology professionals have self-lobotomized en masse and followed the "text markup professionals" right to the gates of hell...
> - It depends on "success" in the shifting sands that are the
> foundation for XML "standards." Just look at the set of "standards"
> being published under the auspices of the W3C.
Well, we'll be able to cope with ever-changing "standards" once the "semantic web" is fully in place, y'know. :-)
> Looks like a futile boondoggle to me...
To paraphrase Fabian Pascal: this is one of those cases where one does not know whether to laugh or to cry.
- erk