Dear Log,
And people wonder
why I hate the W3C.
Yeah, but...
jhi on 2002-08-18T14:10:29
I would hate less W3C in general but more OO-heads in particular...
Nice graphic!
mir on 2002-08-18T17:43:12
I must say that I have no problem with the DOM class hierarchy. An XML document is quite a complex thing and I think the DOM does a good job at modeling it.
I hate the API though, or at least I hate the fact that everybody uses the Java version of the API (even in Perl!), and I think it sucks as a general XML tree-transformation tool.
The oft-heard argument that it makes sense to have the same API in different languages so people can go from one to the other is IMHO ridiculous. If you want a Java API then use Java, and when you code in Perl use a Perl API. Why not include C's ridiculous for( i=0; i++; i<2) in Perl, and throw away our beloved arrow so method calls "look more like Java's"? Wait...
;-) (just to make it clear: I love the arrow and the argument IS ridiculous)
