Why we need XML?

Question

hi,
Why we need XML.?(we have ascii file format is a gentral format, to access all plateform,why not we didn't follow.?)
like XML:
<contact>
<name> java</name>
<age>25</age>
</contact>
flat files:
contact name:java age:25
i feel flat file is small and easy .....why we didn't use it.........?

Answer 1

PS - Jos, how's the weather in your garden today?
(Rainy and cool here.) Well picture this: both of my parrots are trying to
sleep in their own hollow
coconut, slightly disturbed by some silly squeaky
bird at the other side
of the barn. The fish in the pond are sort of
sunbathing between the
floating leafs, my wife seems to be in a catatonic
state sleeping all the
time and then there's me in front of my little laptop
(protected by a silly
little green umbrella like thingy, the laptop that is
;-)A nice image indeed.
It's been one wet spring here. It's very cool and overcast, threatening more rain. I'm sitting in my office working away on getting my head around Spring. I've been going through Rob Harrop's "Pro Spring" slowly and carefully, making all the code work and taking little side trips to set it into my head. Rod Johnson's team is doing a great job, in my opinion.
I still feel that the Spring framework, the web part
of it, is as some sort
of a corset, a hindrance. I feel like I'm all
dressed up but nowere to go
because Spring or something else I don't know about
forbids me ... I
know that I have it wrong alltogether but I can't get
a grip on it. Not sure what the impediment is, but then I don't understand all the nuances of Spring yet. Maybe their newer web flow stuff might help. It models a UI as a state machine, so you can do more complex flows from page to page. The finite automata underneath will appeal to your inner mathematician. 8)
btw. it's in
the lower thirties here (celcius); that makes it in
the lower nineties (fahrenheit).
btw, YoGee helped me a lot yesterday.No surprise there. YoGee sure is smart. While I was reading the thread I wished that I had seen it first. You've been so helpful to me so often that I would have enjoyed reducing the trade deficit I have with you. I know that particular problem with Tomcat and JSTL well.
Yep, I'm working on a large ('Dutch-wise' speaking
that is) optic fibre
network. Technically this network works great.
Managerially speaking
ahem there's nothing yet: no services, no control
of services, no
network checking stuff, no customer (crm) stuff, no
nothing. Those folks
want me to do it all. Sounds like a great problem. Could be an engagement to carry you through the summer.
Yes, that particular part gave me blood behind my
eyes: I did everyhing
according to the book and that crap simply refused to
work. It turned out
that I was trying to develop something against wrong
versions of several
components. In a certain way I'm a believer, i.e.
when I finally do understand
what it's all about I "walk this way" when the
documentation tells me to
"walk this way". When that turns out not to work at
all I want my pink
inflatable axe again (or worse ;-)I like Tomcat, but I think the docs are sketchy. This seems to be a common problem.
No, I feel reluctant to introduce yet another
technology while I'm still
struggling with the ones I found necessary to use.Me, too. I'm overwhelmed by all that I don't know. That's why I'm taking the time to get all the way through Spring once. I've been reading and dabbling, but I haven't given it enough concentrated attention to have it under my fingers. I've got three personal projects lined up once I get through "Pro Spring" that should set it into my head nicely.
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I'm not a GUI guy myself, far from that and I'd like
to stay away from it as
far as possible. As I wrote above I feel "all dressed
up but nowhere to go".
I've got my beans all ready, my DataSources are all
solid and sound; I
can see that everything works (from the logs), but
that darn web stuff
keeps on pestering me ...I think the UI is always the hardest part. Everything from the service layer back can almost be generated from the beans and tables: Hibernate mappings, DAOs, service layer, JUnit tests for the whole thing. A few nice annotations and you've got the whole thing. Just the UI beast left to tame...
>
I think I'll take another Grolsch and chase that
silly squeaky bird away.
Enjoy your weekend!
kind regards,
JosYou too! Go enjoy some World Cup football!
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