Celebrate the XML Decade

IdaAshley writes "IBM Systems Journal recently published an issue dedicated to XML's 10th anniversary. Take a look at XML application techniques, and general discussion of the technical, economic and even cultural effects of XML. Learn why XML has been successful, and what it would take for XML to continue its success."

Re:Celebrate the XML Decade

[eldavojohn]

Celebrate the XML Decade

I tried. Oh Lord, how I tried!

I started this morning by talking to everyone in XML.

I hope the black eye my coworker gave me heals before my presentation to the CTO tomorrow morning :-(

Unfortunately I'm a Java developer...

[d3ik]

... and most "enterprisey" Java developers have never met a problem that couldn't be fixed with more XML.

Just in time for the festive season

[Centurix]

This year I'll be sending out christmas cards in XML and then placing a large banner outside my house with the appropriate schema.

Then with every following year, I'll be sending a stylesheet card which they can apply to the original XML.

And if they need to locate their names on the card, they can use //recipient[@name='mum']

Re:XML "Sucks"

[MyLongNickName]

When does a broken link constitute "Informative"?

Re:XML "Sucks"

[Bob54321]

This is slashdot. Nobody reads the links.

XML Decade?

[RealGrouchy]

Wait... let me figure this one out...

MCMXC was 1990...
MDCCCLX was 1860...

I give up! Which decade was XML?

- RG>

Re:Celebrate the XML Decade

[Duhavid]

Really...

We all needed to leave the first post in this to the guy with
the sig

"XML is like violence, if it doenst fix the problem, you arent using enough"

Or words to that effect.

Re:Why XML was successful

[theodicey]

It would be too easy to mistake one brace for another, especially when there are several tags

I hack LISP, you insensitive clod!

Re:news flash

[Anonymous Coward]

"No, it's a spec for text markup."

"First, in spite of it's name, XML is not a markup language; rather it's a toolkit for creating, shaping, and using markup languages."
[Source: ISBN:0-596-00046-4]

"Rampant spec abuse. 10 years old and still looking for a problem to solve."

Then don't use it. I'm certain your indian replacement will not have any such issues.

Re:Celebrate the XML Decade

[Randolpho]

I started this morning by talking to everyone in XML.

<conversation>
<greeting type="friendly">Hello, fellow coworker type dude!</greeting>
<response type="violent">Have a black eye!</response>
</conversation>

Re:Celebrate the XML Decade

[Anonymous Coward]

<greeting type="friendly">Hello, fellow coworker type dude!</greeting>

That's a poorly designed format. You should make "greeting" a complex type and use elements to represent the greeting text and the greeting type. Then, the greeting type can be properly validated against a W3C XML Schema. There's no valid reason to use an attribute in cases like these.

XML Debacle is more like it ;)

[FooAtWFU]

Actually, I was looking at the title and I did a double-take, since the first time I saw it I thought it said "Celebrate the XML Debacle". Oop. I thought, surely it's not that bad...

Eh, what do I know? Maybe it is that bad. =)

Don't feel too bad, Tim

[jlowery]

Al Gore declaims the same every anniversary of the Internet.

Re:Celebrate the XML Decade

[gbobeck]

I started this morning by talking to everyone in XML.

Care to share the DTD and schema you used for that?

Re:Celebrate the XML Decade

[zootm]

That's a poorly designed format. You should make "greeting" a complex type and use elements to represent the greeting text and the greeting type. Then, the greeting type can be properly validated against a W3C XML Schema. There's no valid reason to use an attribute in cases like these.

I took the liberty of revising the format a little, is this better?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<conversation
xmlns="http://slashdot.org/sarcasm/XML/conversatio n"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<participants>
<participant>
<short-name>OP</short-name>
<full-name>Original poster</full-name>
</participant>
<participant>
<short-name>CW</short-name>
<full-name>Unwitting coworker</full-name>
</participant>
</participants>

<relationships>
<two-way-relationship name="coworker">
<person>OP</person>
<person>CW</person>
</two-way-relationship>
</relationships>

<greeting time="2006-11-17T10:12:10Z" speaker="OP" targets="CW">
<type>
<demeanour>friendly</demeanour>
</type>
<speech>
<text type="text/plain">
Hello, fellow coworker type dude!
</text>
</speech>
</greeting>

<response time="2006-11-17T10:12:34Z" speaker="CW" targets="OP">
<type>
<demeanour>angry</demeanour>
<context>
<divorce type="messy"/>
<custody-battle type="messy"/>
</context>
</type>
<speech>
<text type="application/xhtml+xml">
Have a <html:em>black eye</html:em>!
</text>
</speech>
<action>
<punch>
<recipient>OP</recipient>
<aim>eye</aim>
</punch>
</action>
</response>

</conversation>

I'm sort of disappointed that I only got to use two namespaces. Can't get indentation to work either, unfortunately.

Re:No mention of XML's creators?

[ravenlock]

I'd try to be modest too if people blamed me for XML :P