Re: Is there any use for XML in VB (or anywhere else) ?
From: Alan Silver (alan-silver_at_nospam.thanx)
Date: 02/22/04
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:26:01 +0000
In article <OmT$jiL9DHA.2368@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, Jim Carlock
<anonymous@10.10.com> writes
>XML is a worldwide public standard, with no licensing requirements. It
>is used extensively at Microsoft in the presentation of their webpages.
>With it being an open standard and everyone embracing it and it being
>wrapped around and with HTML standards, it's a transitional package. I
>don't really use it myself, but the standards are there, and alot of
>major corporations use it.
>
>Microsoft has embraced it passionately, and you can import XML packages
>into just about most other applications.
I don't mean to be cynical, but just because MS has jumped on the XML
bandwagon does not mean that it is a panacea. My question was precisely
intended to cut through the hype and see if there was any real value to
XML.
>If you look at Microsoft webpages, you'll get ideas on how it can be
>used and where to apply it. XL can save and read documents in XML
>format. It makes a really quick and easy way to copy things from one
>source to another... such as presentation through a webpage.
I don't see XML on MS's web pages, I see HTML. I presume you mean that
the docs are stored in XML and transformed into HTML for serving. If so,
you'll pardon me for not jumping up and down about it. This is hardly
rocket science, nor does it justify the hype.
>One other comment... it is part of the XHTML language which is
>replacing HTML. So good thing to know about.
Who says XHTML is replacing HTML ? Again, the bandwagon jumpers would
like to claim so, but I have yet to see evidence of it.
Thanx for the reply, but you didn't convince me of anything.
-- Alan Silver
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