"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in
news:405c0e14@news.povray.org: 

> XML/XSLT are a late internet-bubble hype
> that create bloated, slow and complex programs in absolutely every
> place they have ever been used.  Consequently, every responsible
> designer and programmer should avoid this combination like the plague!
>  They are no good for anything they have ever been used for.  
> 
> Consequently, even the suggestion to use XML is a total waste of time!
> 
>     Thorsten
> 

I agree wholeheartedly in the case of SDL.  However, for the IMPFarm, XML 
was a very good fit.  It provided an easy way issue rendertasks from a 
database at the webserver to then be parsed at the client in perl.  
Switching to XML simplified the code significantly.

-- 
Tom
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