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Thanks Alain, Simon, and Henry. One thing that stuck out as I read Henry's message is the word "semi-structured": > XML remains the sweet-spot for semi-structured data Henry, do you mean that XML's sweet-spot is just with mixed content? Fully-structured XML is not in its sweet spot? XML with mixed content: <Comment>This is a <emp>very</emp> nice widget</Comment> Fully-structured XML: <Book> <Title>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</Title> <Author>Mark Twain</Author> <ISBN>0486280616</ISBN> </Book> Mixed content XML is in. Fully-structured XML is out. Is that what you are saying? /Roger -----Original Message----- From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@markup.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:53 PM To: Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org Subject: Re: What is XML's sweet spot? "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org> writes: > Arjun Ray wrote [2]: > > the authors [of a paper criticizing XML] do go wrong in > characterizing XML as a "mechanism for serializing structured > data", which is precisely where all the bad karma originates. > > if the question is "a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for > serializing structured data", then just about all of the time XML is > _not_ the answer. I strongly disagree. First, distinguish between human-authored vs. automatically generated. Then, distinguish between human-targeted vs. automatically consumed. Finally, consider whether trust boundaries and/or mission-critical integrity constraints are involved, i.e. whether validation is needed. For the _very_ large space of automatically-generated and -consumed information, where validation is required, XML remains the sweet-spot for semi-structured data, in my opinion. And there are lots and lots of systems that do this. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, Markup Systems Ltd. Cavers Garden Farm, Denholm; by Hawick; TD9 8LN +44 (0) 7866 471 388 Fax: (44) 131 651-1426, e-mail: ht@markup.co.uk URL: http://www.markup.co.uk/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]
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