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  • From: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
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  • Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 16:30:01 +0100

On 29/05/2022 16:05, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex wrote:
On 29.05.2022 16:52, Peter Flynn wrote:
On 29/05/2022 14:56, Roger L Costello wrote:
Would you provide an example of something that cannot be expressed in XML but can be expressed in some other data language, please?
Overlap.
I was about to give the same answer, but overlap can be indeed be expressed in XML, albeit sometimes clumsily
:-) Yes, I should have been more precise: overlap can be expressed but not represented.

So the question should be more like: Are there more natural fits as languages for expressing some data.
CSV is better at expressing row-and-column type data.
Various forms of database are better at expressing other layouts of atomic and relational data.
XML remains better at continuous text.

Peter


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