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Re: "Obvious reasons"
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Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:22:50 -0500
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F. Alfredo Rego writes:
>
> "Because everyone else is doing it".  How sad, indeed.  Please note that
> I have nothing against XML (or any other technology, for that matter).
> What worries me is the reasoning behind the "you have to do it anyway"
> argument.

No! For a lot of things, that would be a bad reason, but for communication
protocols and data interchange formats, that's a great reason.

On the other hand, there are those who are using XML for just about every
data representation problem.

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