Slashdot
has a vigorous discussion going on about "Expanding
the use of XML in
Linux?" Opinions vary from "XML sucks" to
"just like the Windoze Registry?" to "XML?
Hooray!"
A lot of the XML community uses Linux, and
there's considerable cross-fertilization. (Even
before
the arrival of XML and Linux, a lot of the SGML
community used Unix.) The LinuXML
project is an extreme
example, which uses Linux as a reference platform
and plans to move communication between Unix
processes from ASCII text to XML. Similarly,
Henry Thompson of the University of
Edinburgh HCRC spoke in his presentation at XML Developer Days of
building 'fat' XML pipes between UNIX
applications.
Many Linux tools run in cross-platform
environments, including
Python, and
Java, which David
Megginson (creator of the SAX Java
API for XML
parsers) reports
works
quite well for him (even 1.2) in Linux.