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RE: What is XML For?

• To: Anupam Singh <avsingh@h...>
• Subject: RE: What is XML For?
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:01:27 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <F87HTZjZZUoByd9UEir00006153@h...>

> Objects are not data - they are a proprietary/binary representation
> of data that need 'object-interpreters' on both ends.

Proprietary?  No thanks.  Binary?  I'll sacrifice a few IP packets for
interop anytime.

> And the wire
> may not be a wire - it might be a message bus which understands
> those objects.

Sure, but that's beyond the scope of my question.

> XML is data without any assumption of 'interpreters' on either
> end plus it does not impose a medium of transmission.

Okay, so it's a superset of objects on the wire.
	/r$

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