"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (XML is a bit unusual in this respect, but that's probably just some > variation of the bikeshed effect. it's just text, and everyone with > a keyboard knows what that is, so we don't need to use established > software engineering practices, or think about security *at all* (Billion > laughs? XXE?) or, for that matter, learn from people who's > been doing data interchange in other domains since the dawn of time. and > when they do appear anyway, and mess with our technology in ways that we > haven't authorized, without reading our books or going to our seminars or > subscribing to our mailing lists, we can write them off as "clueless > muppet teenage genius code-jockeys", and keep patting our- selves on the > back, while the rest of the world is busy routing around us, switching to > well-understood XML subsets or other serialization formats, simpler and > more flexible data models, simpler API:s, and > more robust code. and Python ;-) >
maybe time to switch to decaf... :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
