From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 14 15:29:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478A437B401 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:29:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from oracle.uk.clara.net (oracle.uk.clara.net [195.8.69.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8741C43EC2 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:29:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from george@alink.co.za) Received: from adsl.uk.alink.co.za ([217.158.80.249] helo=D9NLZD0J) by oracle.uk.clara.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 18NLiZ-000BpG-00 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:29:11 +0000 Message-ID: <004a01c2a3c8$95f3e150$0100000a@D9NLZD0J> From: "George Barnett" To: Subject: Re: aaaarrrrggghhh - I can't remember and it's killling me.. Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:29:02 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Most stuff is being put in HTML or XML or PDF or even DOC and other > complex, poorly-documented, formats. And much is being put into I'm doing a simple dig on various nameservers and listing the output side by side. Using XML in place of a 5 line shell script would be like swatting a fly with a ping-pong bat (A bit slower and you're likely to miss :).. > I suspect that much data would be better off in plain-text files, and > very much effort (ie, money) wasted by a general move to non-text forms There's a good case for keeping large batches of data in well managed central databases. If you're able to query this data from a nice XML template then you'll probably same time and money. The key is picking the right tool for the job. I recall asking one of my tutors why he bothered to write code for Windows. His response was something along the lines of: "No sense [unix] using a big hammer on a small nail. Likewise, no sense using a small hammer [Windows] on a big nail." --george To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message