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Subject:Re: Rant: Giving up on XML From:Siliconwriter <siliconwriter -at- comcast -dot- net> To:Milan Davidovic <shl_ctf -at- yahoo -dot- ca> Date:Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:31:22 -0700
On Mar 13, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Milan Davidovic wrote:
> --- siliconwriter -at- comcast -dot- net wrote:
>> After weeks of research, reading and studying, I'm
>> throwing in the towel on XML...
>> I'm not interested in becoming a
>> programmer in order to do my job, which is writing
>> manuals, not coding stylesheets.
>
> So, in hindsight, might it have been cheaper to hire a
> specialist to set things up and show you how to run them?
Paying money to a specialist/consultant was SO never going to happen.
Budget? We don't got no steenking budgets.
Another time (like, after I retire), my intellectual curiosity will
no doubt lead me to delve into this. Now, not. Too busy. Way way WAY
too busy to mess about with this unproductive effort any more.
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