Comment Re:uh, wasn't xml supposed to be... (Score 1) 188
...this nice little, uncomplicated language?
It still is (well, a nice, little, uncomplicated meta-language). Namespaces, XPATH, XSL, etc etc etc are not compulsory. But it's convenient to be able to mix-n-match other pre-written XML-based languages or transform one XML document into another (like DocBook-XML to RSS to XHTML).
It still is (well, a nice, little, uncomplicated meta-language). Namespaces, XPATH, XSL, etc etc etc are not compulsory. But it's convenient to be able to mix-n-match other pre-written XML-based languages or transform one XML document into another (like DocBook-XML to RSS to XHTML).