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xml

Martin Fowler hates XSLT too

I have no problem with XML. It's a fine way to store hierarchical data in a relatively simple, mostly human-readable format. But I've always disliked its companion technology, XSLT [http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt]. While useful in theory-- "using a simple XSLT transform, XML

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Unwanted Modeling Language

If you develop software long enough, you’ll eventually run into Universal Modeling Language. This happened to me last year when we started working with our offshore vendor. UML is a diagramming standard that allows you to model software in a universal way. This could be theoretically be helpful if

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