Comments | jayakrishnan: To be or not to be

jayakrishnan

To be or not to be - XML buzz word compliant

Oct 10, 2003 11:57

I have always felt that only simple, focused and easy to understand concepts catch on quickly. Take XML for example. The benefits of using XML as a data description standard for data exchange between applications is now well understood. Unfortunately its popularity has also resulted in XML being incorporated into completely un-needed areas.

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Welcome! quizling October 10 2003, 03:23:22 UTC

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It hurts the buzz-word too. anonymous October 10 2003, 11:21:53 UTC

XML as a data defintion standard is fairly ok when the data maps well into a heirarchial structure. To push the name XML into every unrelated aspect, does many bad things
- it makes the topic difficult to adapt to, if XML doesnt suit it
- buzz-words undermine other possibly more logistically correct approaches
- if the whole thing fails, it gives a bad name to XML !

I agree with you in the observation. But then again there are a lot of other factors that go into something's popularity, a major one is tool support and XML has plenty of that : does that let a VXML user leverage anything ? if yes, VXML may have more meat.

passing thoughts,
Roshan

anonymous March 4 2004, 16:34:11 UTC

I do agree very much with Jayakrishnan on this. I dont know much about VXML, but used to get really annoyed for going for XML for any damn thing in a programmers world. When people go crazy behind XML, turning back to their own common sense, lets these bullets, strike them!!!

* ITS toooo.. bulky.. if you are 70 Kg, and belive me.. putting you in XML he would make you 210 Kg!!!!!.
* Many a times, it would be really enconmic to read direcly from your own defined data structure, rather than going thru the parsers...
* Read just basics of XML(How and why XML) and tell those basic to yourself, 20 times; then take your decision

PS: I love XML for its simplicity, but hate people for not using their commonsense while makeing decisions of its usage..... last but least, if at all I was better than anyone at work it was not because, I was good, it was because, I had commonsense over him.

Viju Chacko