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Hi Jens, Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI wrote: > Hi Mike > > > This is one of the hypes about XML, that I'd like to defuse. XML is > not any more self-describing than CSV files. E.g. > > <99874987kjhk> <gnygngyasdada> What is this? </gnygngyasdada> </99874987kjhk> > > > Case proved? > I'd like to disagree with this very firmly - my primary use case is sending medium complexity messages between financial apps. I was doing this for years before XML came along and I can say that when you know what the structure should be - as we did - but you don't know exactly how the other department's application has mangled its output (or how yours has mangled its) then a genuinely self-descriptive format really shows its strength compared to anything that is kind of self-descriptive for trivial examples. In my opinion, case disproved. Francis.
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