On 4/29/10 3:48 PM, Boheemen, Peter van wrote:
>> But all the flaws of XML can be traced back to SGML which is
>> why we now use JSON despite all of its limitations.
>>
> excuse me, but JSON is something completely different. It is an object notation and in not at all usable to structure data.
Don't let the CouchDB guys know that: http://couchdb.apache.org/ or any
of the other JSON-based API builders either.
> XML is great to describe complex data, but it is often badly used, like in MARC XML (ISO 2709 described in XML). And it is musunderstood by a lot of programmmers that only thing in strings, integers and the lot<str name="array1>water</str>
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>> In his vision of Xanadu every piece of published information had a
>> unique ID that was reused everytimes the publication was referenced -
>> which would solve our problem.
>>
> Keep on dreaming Jakob :-)
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Received on Thu Apr 29 2010 - 15:56:53 EDT