Article:		Parsing RSS At All Costs
Subject:		This Article is Quite Uplifting
Date:		2003-01-22 18:43:41
From:		Aaron Swartz
I've been saying for years that XML is a failure; it's great to see XML.com saying it. Perhaps now we can move past this inelegant, timesucking, breakage-causing, useless rathole we call XML and onto solving real problems.

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• This Article is Quite Uplifting
  2003-01-23 08:52:22 Alan Kotok [Reply]
  
  Aaron, et al:

  
  About two years, I started a little daily news wire for our Web site and began capturing the content in an XML database, using the News Industry Text Format. Later, we extracted the content into a weekly newsletter, and began syndicating the content with RSS 1.0. We now have the daily news wire, two editions of the newsletter, two versions of the syndicated content, and a daily edition formatted for handheld devices.

  
  All of this publishing activity is made possible by using XML (which, by the way, we test for well-formedness each day) that we do on a shoestring. Without XML and XSLT stylesheets we could not even dream of providing this service to our community. If that's not 'solving real problems' to use your words, I don't know what is.

  
  Alan Kotok
  Editor, E-Business*Standards*Today
  http://www.disa.org/dailywire/