[Gllug] [OT] Advice for cheap hotel somewhere around the Barbican?

[Vincent AE Scott]

tet at accucard.com(tet at accucard.com)@Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 03:29:31PM +0100:
> 
> >I keep thinking I have to have a play with Jabber.  I was very impressed by
> >the sound of it after hearing the talk at Fosdem...
> 
> Jabber serves one real purpose, which is to demonstrate almost all of
> the possible abuses of XML in one single app. Just MHO, of course, but
> an app like Jabber has no business using anything XML related in any
> way, shape or form, let alone using it for config files. Bleugh!

i hope your joking. ;-)
jabber is very very cool, i'm by no means an XML fan, infact i know very
little about it, but i can see how its usefull for abstracting out into
text the various protocol's for different IM's.  It does appear like
taking a sledge hammer to crack the proverbial nut, its by no means a
compact protocol that it uses, but i'm beginning to like it.

yeah, the XML config file was a bit weird to start with, but again, it
leaves no ambiguities about what does what and where.  i only wish their
was a man page for it.

-v

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