It's the season for confession. First Tim Bray reveals a dirty secret: "a lot of input data these days is XML...in most cases, I use the perl regexp engine to read and process it." Then Sean McGrath fesses up to his Python habit: "I know I should be invoking a WF [well-formed] parser on the content.xml string but gee Ma, I've got work to do."
Shortly after President Bush's speech last night, Scott Rosenberg, managing editor at Salon, posted an analysis on his weblog. I sent Scott an email with my compliments. It isn't often that an essay changes minds. This one changed mine.
In examining the areas of XML application that inspire caution, a good first step is to consider the weaknesses of XML in general. It should be noted that most of these weaknesses are consequences of XML’s tender age and that some of the shortcomings are the result of the fact that the technology’s rapid growth on the Web has outpaced its development.
Do you add understanding to the world or do you add entropy? People who make good friends add understanding, or are good people to work with. Sometimes it seems that most of the people in the world are programmed to create entropy. And of course there are good reasons to have that too.
Something to think about it. I sure hope I', not adding entropy. [Scripting News]
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