Storing Lots of Fiddly Bits (was Re: What is XML for?)

[uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com]

> Or said another way: there's no magic in the DOM (or groves or XML) that
> will make storing and managing business objects easier.

I think this is the crux of the matter, and exactly what the "XML is not a 
universal hammer" folks (myself included) have been trying to get across.

I use XML heavily along-side CORBA, and (by way of weak excuse/apology for my 
rather ad hominem attack on Dave Winer yesterday) I do get very frustrated 
when people champion using XML to replace very effective and general 
object-management systems.  As much as I hate analogies, I'll hazard one: if 
you sell people Aspirin as a panacea, and they later on find out that it 
doesn't cure warts, cancer, dropsy or a crack habit, they might become sour 
enough to forget that it was actually a very effective pain-reliever.

Then again, as Jonathan Borden put it: who am I?

-- 
Uche Ogbuji
FourThought LLC, IT Consultants
uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com	(970)481-0805
Software engineering, project management, Intranets and Extranets
http://FourThought.com		http://OpenTechnology.org



xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)