[Gllug] Data migration and electronic archaeology

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Mon May 27 13:26:33 UTC 2002


On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:12:37PM +0100, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> >And don't get me started on XML!
> Agreed 100%. I was starting to think that I was the only one that hadn't
> fallen for the XML hype. Sure, it has a number of uses. But it's far from
> the panacaea that people are making it out to be.

Strikes me as being pretty damned nice for data interchange, but lousy
for anything else - including data storage.

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