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Don Park wrote: > XML is very flexible and it is easy to convert practically any data into XML > without significant loss of information. The trick I think, is to convert information taken for granted by humans into something more formal. Formatting such as indents need to be interpreted as nested objects. Humans don't have a problem with this because they primarily digest the information linearly - finding the ends of objects programatically isn't always as easy. I think the conversion to XML is much more likely to result in lost information than the conversion out. > But because XML is so powerful, > the problem of converting XML to other data formats is much greater than > before and is bound to cause information loss. If your XML is adequately designed, it should contain all of the information - getting it out with something like OmniMark is trivial. It might be difficult to render neatly in your output, but that's not an XML issue. > So I guess I am leading > toward using XML more as a data communication format and less as a data > storage format. I don't see that being any more true for XML than it has ever been for SGML. > Just whining cuz I am not going to the XML Conference, By the sounds of it, we're the minority group... -- Regards Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... _______________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) email: info@a... Level 10, 91 York Street www: http://www.allette.com.au Sydney 2000 NSW Australia phone: +61 2 9262 4777 fax: +61 2 9262 4774 _______________________________________________________________ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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