On Mon Jun 28 14:56:12 EDT 2010, robp...@gmail.com wrote: > I should add that Russ's post is on point, Wadler's slightly off. I > would extend it as "The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves > is not hard, it does not solve the problem well, and anyway it's not > the problem people think it solves."
yet in that it does something, it does so vigorously and verbosly and does so less vexatiously than asn.1, which does solve the problem xml purports to solve. - erik
