Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] XML Limerick Competition

From
Jonathan Robie <>
To
Mike Champion <>,
Date
2002-01-09T22:56:12Z
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Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] XML Limerick Competition
At 05:30 PM 1/9/2002 -0500, Mike Champion wrote:
>1/9/2002 4:57:42 PM, Jonathan Robie <> wrote:
>
> >Said the Perl Hacker, desperately, "Sigh.
> >My instance was augmented - why?"
> >Here's why he was vexed:
> >Things were not in the text,
> >But appeared in the PSVI!
>
>The answer here is to KISS.
>Well-formed XML can be bliss.
>A schema, DTD,
>big hassle, can be.
>Headaches are all you will miss.

"But Michael", he said, "don't be dense!
It's a document, not SAX events.
Without all that structure,
Your data will rupture!
Declare it, don't program it, gents!

Jonathan