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Don’t Use a Hammer to Pound a Screw

Now that I’m back to working, it has once again hit me how much I hate SOAP and the horrendous mess that is modern XML which it fairly accurately reflects. Instead of ranting about it myself, however, I’m going direct to you to an excellent post by Jeff Atwood: “XML: The Angle Bracket Tax“.

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, that SOAP call translates to:

GetLastTradePrice("DIS")

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  1. warpedvisions.org » Blog Archive » XML, the 453.59237kg gorilla Says:
    May 13th, 2008 at 06:49

    [...] May 13th, 2008 in Links Jeff Atwood on ‘XML: The Angle Bracket Tax‘ (via Yangman). [...]

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