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Re: Percentage of XML documents exclusively processed bymachin

• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:43:04 +0000

 >I'll take a wild guess and say that 99% of all XML documents are 
exclusively processed by machines. Is that a reasonable estimate?

Seems a gross underestimate to me. I'd say 99.99999%. There are zillions 
of things flying around the ether in XML form, like status reports from 
networking routers, that are never seen by any human being.

 >That's not at all my experience.

With respect, you're a human, so you see a biased sample. The experience 
of a machine might be different.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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