X# - Don't Run With Scissors

Well, just came along the X# programming language. You would have thought that we learned the lesson with jelly. Do you want to go back to Maven 1 maven.xml? (Mojos are not that better, IMO)

James has a lot to go for, Groovy, ActiveMQ, and tons of other projects. Maybe jelly was a good project to help prove, ones and for all, that xml should not be used as a programming language (and maybe acted as the instigator for Groovy?).

Here is a code sample taken directly from the site, oh, the horror:

<xsp:append-child target="document('xdbc:mysql://192.168.1.27:3306/maindb')/oil_news">  
    <xsp:for-each select="(document('http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml')/text() >> /library/xml/pi('import'))/channel/item[contains(title,'oil')]">  
        <row>  
            <title><xsp:text value="{title}"/></title>  
            <description><xsp:text value="{description}"/></description>  
            <link><xsp:text value="{link}"/></link>  
        </row>  
    </xsp:for-each>  
</xsp:append-child>