Re: efficient XML (!= recursion)

[David RR Webber <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by "Peter D. Pruyne"
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        The driver on message structure MUST be underlying business 
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Peter,

This is why I started out a week ago saying that recursion is a 
version 2.0 feature, not a version 1.0 feature, for lots of 
very obvious business reasons.

We need buy in and we need ease of implementation to a 
broad global community.

Tim Bray's criteria - that an XML parser should be easily 
implementable with two to three weeks work by a 
graduate student - should not be forgotten in this context.

Not to mention another criteria - do you really want to be
debugging @ 2am in the morning on a transaction with
45,000 lines in it that failed because of a recursive reference
somewhere in it??!

DW.