XML class warfare

Uche Ogbuji speaks favorably of those of us who came to XML from the document camp. All this business of fortifying XSLT and XPath with strongly typed data worries the markup ‘bohemians’.

Strong data typing in XML tends to pigeonhole data to specific tools, environments and situations. This often raises the total cost of managing that data.

I think it also bothers Joe Developer, who looks at SOAP and wonders why?

I think there’s a role for strongly-typed serialization, but I think it’s in a domain-specific or extension language and shouldn’t percolate up to engulf all of our tools for handling XML.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on February 14, 2003 at 12:00 am and filed under software-development. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.