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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada?
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* Pascal Obry:

> Certainly not! XML is a way to structure information (document, data, ...) it
> is a simple SGML (SGML has been around since a long time). The problem with
> SGML was that it was too complex to be widespead... and tools were very
> expensive. In this sense XML is very successful!

And its limitations begin to show, so more complexity is added, until
the XML toolchest is much more complex than the SGML one ever was.

The same thing has happened to DAP and LDAP.