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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:06 PM

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Klaar Chris, klaar. My point of view exactly.

In English "mark up" is something you do to documents, not databases.

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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:17 PM

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Stephen Hirsch (5/2/2008)

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"I've never heard of the grave character. I'm going to look into it. I'm sure my peers in the other agency would appreciate an alternative to reading my XML files."

Sure. It's the lowercase key next to the "1" on US keyboards (other keyboards, YMMV)

It's also the unshifted tilde (~), unshifted it's the accent grave. IIRC, it's used in *nix BASH scripting, but I don't remember what for, but apparently it has quite a number of computer uses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#Computer-related. :P

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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:21 PM

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Sure, in Unix it does. I meant lexically, like in human languages.

If you're putting Unix commands into the data, then yes, you'd have to find something else. I don't think that that would occur very often, though.

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Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 11:49 AM

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The place I work now use XML, a LOT. And a lot of the time in the wrong ways. Luckily we have finally agreed on a standard: Relational data in the database and as results, unless it can be proven that XML is the right/best way to do it. I.e. it is up to the developer in question to convince us during peer design reviews that he needs to use XML.

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Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:48 PM

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By creating an incredibly bigoted paper, you lost your credibility. When one chooses only that which supports their predetermined conclusion, they do an injustice to a good analysis.

If one properly chooses selected components of RDBMS, one can make exactly the same kind of claims. For example a RDBMS is not a good way to send information across the internet. Talk about a large footprint. If this is all one considers, one could conclude that RDBMS is something one should avoid.

BTW do you use Vista? If so then you are heavily invested in XML as it provides the underlying communications for Vista. I don't see a performance penalty. Vista appears to work pretty well.

You have some good points but you've selectively chosen those things at which XML is not good and reinterpreted others to fit your conclusion.

I'm amazed this article was printed twice.
So something so bad performs extremely well in proper real use.

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