Hippo

Last week, XML turned 10. Hurray!
Incredible that it's just 10 years ago.

Crunching my memory, I think the first time I came across XML was somewhere in the end of 1998, when I was working on a Microsoft technology based CMS. Since people have been harassing me with this horrendous error ever since, I hereby would like to make a public confession.

The stupidest thing I ever did with XML
Store a 100Mb of XML data in a single MS Access record using ASP.
It took ages to store or retrieve the data, and I kept all data in memory for operations before I flushed it back to Access. And the database obviously crashed all the time. But you know, learning comes with making mistakes.

The coolest thing I ever did with XML
Giving all attendees of the Cocoon GetTogether a virtual seat using SVG and Cocoon SVG-to-JPG transformations :)

The stupidest thing I ever saw someone else do with XML
Calculate a square root using pure XSL transformations (this one is actually courtesy of Ard ;) )

So what was your best XML moment?

10 years old. Can you imagine? Not even old enough to visit high school. Another 8 years before XML will be allowed to drive a car.

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