Re: Admin tools - idea from left field
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, David Welton wrote:
> I don't know XML and associated concepts real well - I'm a bit dubious
> though - can you do anything besides create data formats? (Please
> respond in concrete terms - I can't stand all the hype-ish "enabling
> system for the meta parsing of object oriented data storage and
> knowledge enhanced blah blah" :-)
All you can really do is define data structures, yes.
OTOH, a program is only data. So, you could define XML for IF like this:
<IF COND="$fred">
...
</IF>
And looping, etc. Cold Fusion (spit!) does this. It's pretty awful.
Don't go down that road :-)
Jules
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