Re: Development Trends in Web and Oracle

DA Morgan apparently said,on my timestamp of 12/03/2005 9:52 AM:
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> It is the only socially acceptable way to use one hundred bytes to
> transmit one byte.
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> <RIDICULOUSLYLONGTABSIGNIFYINGNOTHING>X</RIDICULOUSLYLONGTABSIGNIFYINGNOTHING>
>
>
> XML is fine for front-ends but doesn't belong in a database unless the
> object is to spend money on hardware.

It's not even fine for front-ends...
XML encapsulates data in arbitrary text pairs. Its purpose should be data transmission, where encryption is not necessary and there is a structure of data to maintain. Other than that it serves no purpose whatsoever that cannot be achieved orders of magnitude more reliably and efficiently with many other technologies.

Unless you sell hardware. Oh, hang on! Who's pushing it? Hardware manufacturers.

Nuff said.

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Nuno Souto
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