On 26 July 2010 13:53, Richard Salz <> wrote:
> I don't get it -- which community needs this xml-like thing? And why?
The community that just wants to read or write very simple xml files.
Given:
<config xmlns="http://somecomp.com">
<foo>abc</foo>
</config>
...and you want to update the value of <foo>, how would you do it?
Or put more realisticly, a colleague of yours knows very little about
XML and all of its related technologies, and asks you how they should
do it.
- XSLT transform
- XQuery update
- JDOM, XOM etc
- SAX parse and generate the events
- some data-binding tool (if an xsd exists)
All fairly straight forward for the xml community, but to anyone else
each of those seem like a massive overkill for such a seemingly simple
task. Perhaps there is a simple way that I've missed?
The ultimate goal of hackable xml is to make it possible to just do a
string replace of "<foo>abc</foo>" with "<foo>newValue</foo>" (which
is often what happens anyway, causing many hours of fun) and then
serialize/reparse without any issues.
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