On 8/28/07, fnewtonnc_at_aol.com <fnewtonnc_at_aol.com> wrote:
> However, XML is also terrible.? One of its problems is its umbilical attachment
> to the unacceptable idea that the deep structure of all library catalogs?can
> be?written in English.
This is a huge misconception, a fallacy of people who don't know how
the technology works. XML can be whatever you like it to be - numbers,
Swahili, English, hieroglyphs - and is implementation agnostic. Some
people create poetry with a pen and paper, others write propaganda and
hate mail, some pack their fish in the paper, my kids stick the pen
through the paper and make a tent out of it ; tools have many uses,
but you cannot accuse the tools of the end product. Can we please stop
bashing stuff we don't understand?
Alex
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