Re: [xml-dev] What is XML For?

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Re: [xml-dev] What is XML For?
Well, 'Smith, Smith & Sons' would fail for XML as well if imported 
unescaped. You would probably get a better error message compared to csv 
though.

/Fredrik Lindgren

J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Alaric B. Snell wrote:
> 
>> I see a whole lot of business data in CSV files, which turns out to be 
>> more convenient than the equivelant XML.
> 
> 
> "The last data import failed badly! What? You are telling me
> I must not use commas in the customer name field? How am I
> supposed to get 'Smith, Smith & Sons' into my system then????"
> 
> J.Pietschmann
> 
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