Re: [unrev-II] Fwd: How many XML gurus does it take to change a light bulb?

From: Henry van Eyken (vaneyken@sympatico.ca)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 12:49:42 PDT

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    And as a "freshman" studying the stuff (or trying to), I am wondering how many
    XHTML/XML authors it takes to eventually get the story accurate and well told.

    Henry

    Jack Park wrote:

    > >From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com>
    > >
    > >Q. How many XML gurus does it take to change a light bulb?
    > >
    > >A. Eight:
    > >
    > >1 to create a syntax for expressing light bulbs
    > >
    > >2 to create broadly similar yet different APIs for interacting with light
    > >bulbs
    > >
    > >1 to argue that the API differences can be resolved by splitting the
    > >universe of light bulb applications into
    > >physical-model and logical-model camps.
    > >
    > >1 to argue that no single, cohesive model is possible.
    > >
    > >1 to disagree and invent yet another "gee! all light bulbs can be though
    > >of it terms of nodes and arcs" model.
    > >
    > >1 to question the sanity of all this and just get stuff working by hacking
    > >simple lightbulb instances
    > >into relational databases and processing them with Perl.
    > >
    > >1 to write the meta-light-bulb joke about it and post it on xml-dev
    > >
    > >Sean
    > >
    > >
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