Re: [xml-dev] Underwhelmed (WAS: [xml-dev] XOM micro tutorial)

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Re: [xml-dev] Underwhelmed (WAS: [xml-dev] XOM micro tutorial)
Elliotte Rusty Harold <> wrote:
| At 10:40 AM -0600 9/21/02, Aaron Skonnard wrote:

| >Yes, both MSXML and the .NET implementation have supported this through
| >the Inner/OuterXml properties.

| The right way should be obvious. The wrong way should be difficult to 
| impossible.

Thank you.  This Inner/OuterXml stuff is just the old document.write() of
Javascript in new clothes.  The basic premise is tag soup: writing a bunch
of tags directly into what is supposed to be a structured object.  Anyone
who thinks Inner/OuterXml is "useful" hasn't shaken off a mentality that
is ultimately hostile to XML use.  Which means that, as usual:

Tag Soup Is Alive And Well.  -sigh-