Re: How long before services sending/receiving XML mightneed r

Hmm... so I've started fiddling with MIDI again.  That's a mere 38 years old and still going strong.  It now runs over USB and a few other options as well as the traditional dedicated DIN cables.  There is MIDI 2.0 work of course, but:

"MIDI 2.0 is an extension of MIDI 1.0. It does not replace MIDI 1.0 but builds on the core principles, architecture, and semantics of MIDI 1.0.

A foundational architecture for MIDI 2.0 expansion is defined by the MIDI Capability Inquiry (MIDI-CI) specification. MIDI-CI allows Devices with bidirectional communication to agree to use extended MIDI capabilities beyond those already defined in MIDI 1.0, while carefully protecting backward compatibility.

MIDI 2.0 is not a stand-alone specification. Manufacturers and developers must have a thorough understanding of MIDI 1.0 in order to implement MIDI 2.0." - https://www.midi.org/specifications/midi-2-0-specifications

There was, of course, a burst of projects deprecating and often removing XML from their systems over the last decade or so, as JSON (and sometimes YAML and sometimes other formats) took over data work that XML had been doing.  XHTML still exists quietly, but again, a lot of that vanished in roughly the same time period.

I don't get any sense in the document-centric worlds that I follow that people still working with XML are calling for revisions of the foundation specs or decommissioning.

I can't say that XML's use WILL be perpetual, but I definitely think that it's reasonable that it COULD be perpetual.  As with MIDI, there are people who want to do more (and less) and extend it in their own ways, but most of that seems (so far) to be contained to specific projects.

Thanks,
Simon

On 11/9/2021 11:30 AM, Stephen D Green wrote:

Hi XML Dev’ers,

Do you have any opinion on how long software systems communicating with each other (one-way or two-way) using XML might be able to continue to use XML this way? If, say, governments currently require data or documents to be sent to them in XML format, what professional advice would you suggest about how long would be reasonable before this use of XML should be replaced? Or do you think such uses of XML could reasonably be perpetual? 

Many thanks for your consideration.

Stephen Green

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