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Re: XML Universe ?

• From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>
• To: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>
• Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:27:11 -0700

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:
>>  Has anyone thought about unifying all available XML documents into a
>> single repository?
>
> I fear even just for static documents you'd need more disk space than
> is easily avaiable :-) I know of people with petabytes of XML.
>
> If you include XML documents generated by car engine computers and Web
> services there's more XML in the world than HTML.


 Such arguments didn't stop the development of the Internet Archive
Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/index.php)

So, if they can do it, we can do it, too -- even won't be the first to do it.


I also thought about the argument that people / companies wouldn't
want to expose their proprietary data. There could be an anonymizer,
that takes your XML, and while preserving its exact structure
(document tree), renames any readable strings to random ones. You run
the anonymizer locally, so you never transmit your precious data on
the wire.

-- 
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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  • XML Universe ?
    • From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>
  • Re: XML Universe ?
    • From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>