[quote user="morbiuswilters"]Second, RSS isn't even a very good protocol for these kinds of things because it has so few attributes that can be use.[/quote] Unless, of course, the RSS content is actually just another XML document! Hmmm, I wonder if the aggregated RSS feed contained the...

[quote user="ActionMan"]Someone needs to send him a link to the wikipedia page for enterprise software...[/quote] No need. Enterprise software is just software which uses XML in every single conceivable place, right?

Yeah, I tried to emulate that in my entry too. It's very popular among C++ programmers to reinvent wheels such as collection classes, strings etc. In my entry I implemented both an STL "compatible" string class (buggy and leaky) and a really ugly XML parser. (Everyone knows that you can't make enterprise...

fennec: Most of these reasons probably don't apply very strongly to the sort of user who will be using OO.o Base. :) Specifically, OO.o is not going for performance on what is potentially gigabytes' worth of data - they're going for reasonably future-proof and system-interchangeable data storage. You...