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Do you work with pure XML?

These days we are preparing the conference program for the German Basta! 2005. The advisory board is voting for each session propsal, so do I.

There was a pure XML session and I set it to red because in the last 18 month of my professional life, I did not meet anyone who works with XML directly. Of course, they use SOAP but not XML ...

A few days later Christian "XML" Weyer enters the room and ... no wonder ... votes for green. Because XML is (still) important in his opinion.

I'm really a friend of XML and spend more than 3 years day for day with XML and XSL. After this job, I thought that I was prepared for the world outside because XML is sooo important and I'm sooo experienced!  But I was wrong.

So, please help us to find out: Do you really work with pure XML? Imagine you are able to visit 10 session in 2 days:

Would you attend an XML 2.0 session?
Do you need an XML session for your daily work?

Published Mar 16 2005, 09:41 PM by SebastianWeber
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Don Demsak said:

What is a pure XML session? Should you have a session on best practices for design message payloads in XML (aka some sort of schema like stuff) you bet. You don't just put streams of zeros and ones on a wire, you have design the contract first.

OK, so maybe I'm a little bias.
March 16, 2005 7:27 PM
 

Sebastian said:

Good question but I mean a session about System.Xml in .NET Framework 2.0.
March 17, 2005 12:44 AM
 

Lars Gehrlein said:

As usually, I would like to let the XML stuff to the tools and concentrate on the business problem. In my experience XML is only the media to solve business problems, not the problem itself.
Concerning your question, the answer is "no". I would prefer a session about tools, which take the burden of XML off my shoulders.
March 29, 2005 4:49 AM
 

TrackBack said:

^_^,Pretty Good!
April 10, 2005 12:46 AM

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