Hey Maurice,

21 Aug 04 10:05, you wrote to Mike Miller:

 MK> Hey Mike!

 MK> Aug 21 17:46 04, Mike Miller wrote to Dan Egli:

 MM>> Please, you show me a better way to format massive amounts of
 MM>> text like that, have it translated into different languages, and
 MM>> _NOT_ use a database.

 MK> I don't think that is what he was talking about though.  I believe,
 MK> perhaps wrongly, he was referring to the distributed raw nodelist and
 MK> not how any individual nodelist processor handles it.  Personally I
 MK> can see how XML looks attractive for a wide variety of reasons,
 MK> including a stored, usable nodelist on any individual node, but draw
 MK> the line where it comes to a raw distributed nodelist.  It should be a
 MK> humanly readable file.  Also, any editor, line or interactive, worth
 MK> it's weight in bytes should be able to produce entries.  It would be
 MK> nice if there were some usable information in those entries and
 MK> predictable where the usable information is exactly.  That would go
 MK> the furthest in assisting compliance.


Actually, what I was getting at is that I have yet to find anything that
can get me over the horror, stress, and pain that XML have come to
represent to me. Just like to most people, the name Satan represents pure
evil and almost no one can think of the name Satan without conjuring up
some kind of devil, I cannot see the word XML and not feel my blood
pressure rising, my heart rate increasing, and basically my body preparing
for the "Fight or Flight" syndrome. To me XML has come to
represent nothing but pain and stress. And although I admit I have not done
a huge amount of looking, nothing I've seen EVER has done anything to
change that fact to me. If you see a piece of metal glowing red you know
you don't want to touch it because you've been burned before by red hot
metal (Who here can honestly say they've never been burned by a hot piece
of metal sometime in their life?). It's an automatic, ingraned response.
The same for me and XML. Automaic ingrained response is XML is pure evil
and should NEVER be used. And I say that becuase of past experiences.


-- Dan

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