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Stanse

Posted Oct 21, 2009 3:37 UTC (Wed) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
In reply to: Stanse by jordanb
Parent article: Stanse

I love it how if you're a Java programmer, XML is the hammer and just about anything requiring any sort of meta-data is the screw.
Or even, if there is no meta-data, XML is still the answer for many Java programmers. 1000+ lines of XML to configure a simple GUI window that is just displaying a fixed data structure.


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Posted Oct 22, 2009 0:02 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Hah. Look up XQueryX if you want unreadable. If the job is scripting, an
XML parse tree is *really really* not the answer.

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