Xml

Is horrendous.

Discuss.

It's not as bad as WML.

If by that you mean WLM... then I'd almost agree... at least WLM makes it easy to talk to people..


Oh god, I can just image an XML-based chat app...

<message sender="timeshifter" reciever="wossy" body="how are you, n00b?" />

Server Error. XML sucks. Get a real chat app.


*bang*

<goon>timeshifter</goon>

Is there a problem?

XML has its place. The hatred for XML comes not from deep in one's soul, but rather stems from one's ignorance of its proper use and resultant irritation at its recalcitrance to apply in inapplicable situations.

XML as a data source that needs to be manipulated is just a pain in the ar$e. As a list of information, it's not bad. I've used it as such and it was pretty slick. But when I spend all day writing an interface to manipulate an XML file, that's an issue. Especially since if it had been a SQL backend database, it would have taken me about fifteen minutes to have knocked out... then I could have spent the day setting up error catching on another project.

Blame the library, not the format.

Don't hate the playa, hate the game. :D

Don't hate the forum, hate the moderator.





*runs*

That's it! I'm telling on you. :mad:


Just as soon as I find one of them.

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XML has its place. The hatred for XML comes not from deep in one's soul, but rather stems from one's ignorance of its proper use and resultant irritation at its recalcitrance to apply in inapplicable situations.

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Originally Posted by wossname

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in soviet russia, XML hates YOU!

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Originally Posted by timeshifter

XML as a data source that needs to be manipulated is just a pain in the ar$e. As a list of information, it's not bad. I've used it as such and it was pretty slick. But when I spend all day writing an interface to manipulate an XML file, that's an issue. Especially since if it had been a SQL backend database, it would have taken me about fifteen minutes to have knocked out... then I could have spent the day setting up error catching on another project.

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Datasets can save and load data to and from xml files.

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XML as a data source that needs to be manipulated is just a pain in the ar$e. As a list of information, it's not bad. I've used it as such and it was pretty slick. But when I spend all day writing an interface to manipulate an XML file, that's an issue. Especially since if it had been a SQL backend database, it would have taken me about fifteen minutes to have knocked out... then I could have spent the day setting up error catching on another project.

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Just curious, Why are you writing an interface? Wouldn't you just define the schema, generate a typed dataset and let ADO.net take care of all of the IO stuff?:confused:

Dammut Arroe Raider beat me to it.

Tried.. but it seems the methods I konw don't really work with XML... so I wrote my own...

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Shame on you. You forgot to quote.

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Originally Posted by kregg

Shame on you. You forgot to quote.

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Originally Posted by timeshifter

Is horrendous.

Discuss.

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I guess you have not heard of XSLT :P

I guess you have not heard of VB :P

If visualAd.Signature.Contains("VB6") Then kregg Is goon

@Adam:
I had to make an XSL schema just to get my XML to read right...

@kregg:
Huh?

Don't you mean XML schema. You can download the XML schema for XSL from here:

http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform

:lol:

Gah.. whatever... I ended up just throwing tables and data sets all over the place... somehow, it works...

Bad programming pratice.

your face is bad programming practice