> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Foster [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:46 PM
> To: Elliotte Harold
> Cc: Robin Berjon; XML Developers List
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Re: Where does the "nothing left but
> toolkits" myth come from?
>
>
> So if one called it BML and wrote SAX and DOM APIs to read
> and write it, you'd be happy with it?
I don't understand this obsession with SAX and DOM. As APIs go they both
suck[0,1]. Why would anyone come up with a simplified binary format then
decide to cruft it up by layering a crufty XML API on it is beyond me.
[0]
http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/01/31/sax-the-bad-
the-good-and-the-controversial/
[1] http://www.artima.com/intv/dom.html
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