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RE: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"

• To: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>,"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>,"Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@d...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"
• From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:59:29 -0500
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• Thread-topic: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"

Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...> writes:
> > > 
> > > OK, so how would you archive the results of a national
> > > census? That's about as structured as you get. I would do 
> it in XML.
> > 
> > There are really three issues implied in this question: archive and 
> > public and private access.
> 
> You might read three questions but I only wrote one. I asked 
> about archive.

Ok. Archive for who?

> > If one has to mix the  concerns
> > then XML is
> > as good as anything. Personally, I'd rather separate them, 
> generating
> > XML for public access as needed.
> 
> You don't have to mix the concerns, and I didn't... I was 
> asking about archive.
 
Archive isn't an isolated capability.  Archive implies capability for
usage.  Usage implies a mix of concerns. Does placing a inscribed stone
tablet in a air tight iron box meet the requirements of archive if no
one knows how to interprett the inscriptions on the stone tablet at any
point in time?

> > Personally, I'd want to know more about any application 
> requirements 
> > before I'd say that XML alone would be sufficient.
> 
> The requirement for archiving a national census is to 
> maximize the probability of being able to extract the 
> information, without loss, and to minimize the cost of doing 
> so, in say 100 years' time.

Given this requirement I'd tend to stay away from any computer based
media or formats XML or otherwise...

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