Jenise Cook » XML http://ridgeviewmedia.com/blog RidgeViewMedia.com | Sharing thoughts on learning, design, social media, and stuff Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:22:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 XML Ambivalence? http://ridgeviewmedia.com/blog/2008/05/xml-ambivalence/ http://ridgeviewmedia.com/blog/2008/05/xml-ambivalence/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:53 +0000 Jenise http://ridgeviewmedia.com/blog/?p=52 Continue reading →]]> Technical communicators and instructional systems designers for e-learning courses find themselves working with XML at some point in their careers. Yet, a degree of ambivalence seems to waft through many conversations these professional have with each other.

An emotion-packed ambivalence. For example, I read a post like Jeff Attwood’s on his Coding Horror blog and wonder why XML discussions can be so charged with emotions, yet result in ambivalence. Visit Jeff’s post and the gazillion Comments below it:

XML: The Angle Bracket Tax

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001114.html

I’d love to hear your “I mastered XML” success stories, so please leave a comment on my post.

Yes, I’m “Always Learning”, and native XML is another tool to add to my tool kit. A new project may depend on it!

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