On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 01:04:53PM -0500, Paul A Houle wrote:
Just to add to the general bitch session, I've seen XML add
to
mindless bloat in applications.
Not generally. The library is shared (unlike all those thousands of
homebrew config parsers)
Other Gnome software depends on libxml. So I end up having to
load
at least two XML parsers when I load my application. I can easily see
Thats not an XML problem but a GNOME problem (or an X one.. )
Even people like Tim Bray have complained about the awkwardness of
working with XML APIs.
Some of them are disgusting, but that isnt an XML problem either.