[Openstreetmap] SVG, JavaScript, DOM, AJAX and web mapping

[Amaury Jacquot]

David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:24:09PM +0100, SteveC wrote:
> 
>>* @ 05/07/05 07:57:53 PM richard at systemeD.net wrote:
>>
>>>The user opens a page containing an SWF client (non-dynamic) which 
>>>sends the HTTP request for data in the new grid square, as per above. A 
>>>'responder' script on the server sends back the data (in query string 
>>>format, not XML... my feelings on XML are roughly equivalent to 
>>>http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/sucks/trainwreck.html ).
>>
>>I'm no fan of XML, but RSS and whatever perls problems are, arn't XMLs
>>problems.
> 
> 
> No, XML's problems lie elsewhere.  I have ranted about them previously
> in another place:
> 
> http://drhyde.hates-software.com/2004/01/09/62309985.html
> http://drhyde.hates-software.com/2004/09/29/4998d8cf.html
> 
> Summary: XML is broken as designed
> 

no. XML in itself is very simple. It's all the crap that people have
added around it (note that XSLT, XML schema, SOAP, WSDL and friends are
different specs, not the original XML spec).