Need help

I need to do a seminar on something XML-related and I have to propose the subject to my teacher tomorrow.

I would like anon to sugest something interesting I should make this seminar about, something web-related is preferable, but that shouldn't come as a surprise.

propose the subject to my teacher tomorrow.

:)

XSLT?

DESUML

>>1
My other car is a cdr.

(SXML)

>>4
win

BBcode is what XML is implemented on top of, I suggest you talk about it!

How about how XML sucks and even a retarded monkey on crack could come up with something better?

How about XML based web service APIs such the one eBay makes available to programmers. It's the first thing I thought of since I'm currently using it.

Present a summary of a paper called "The Essence of XML" by Jerome Simeon and Philip Wadler.  Google should find it for you.

>>1
"something web-related" => XHTML

SVG

Tits or GTFO

Oops sorry, wrong thread.

>>14
you would know, you 8-bit machine

how about xml being a reinvention of S-expressions?

Thanks for delivering, anonymous. There was no class today, fortunately, so I have a sometime to check those out.

>>1
I need to do a seminar on something XML-related
If your audience are geeks, talk about how XML is bullshit and everybody is a moron for it, like it magically enabled software to share data or it was any good (let alone efficient) at anything you can use it for, even its original and sole purpose (a format for describing document). It has an XBOX-sized hype and it's one of the worst misunderstood technologies ever hyped.

If it's for people who like XML, talk about enterprise scalable professional business solutions with high-availability that scale to your business needs and allow you to maximize your profits, convert visitors into customers, optimize your cash flows and lower the total cost of ownership by discovering business logic and pipelining management.

>>16
Only they got everything wrong. I refuse to see XML as S-expressions. More like Fail-expressions.

XML is disgustingly verbose. There's just no excuse for it.

<xml>
    <enterprise:features>
        <general>
            <featureset id="1">
                <feature name="verbosity">
                    <properties>
                        <property name="verbose">
                        1
                        </property>
                    </properties>
                </feature>
            </featureset>
        </general>
    </enterprise:features>
</xml>

lol wut

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