XML Considered Harmful

[Mostowski Collapse]

Or then use cryptographic methods to protect your XML
file when in transit. Like encryption and/or signatures.

Mostowski Collapse schrieb am Freitag, 24. September 2021 um 15:46:27 UTC+2:
> BTW: I think its problematic to associate Java with XML.
> Michael F. Stemper schrieb am Dienstag, 21. September 2021 um 20:12:33 UTC+2: 
> > On the prolog thread, somebody posted a link to: 
> > <https://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html>
> The above linke is very old, from 2004, and might apply 
> how Java presented itself back in those days. But since 
> the Jigsaw project, XML has practically left Java. 
> 
> Its all not anymore part of the javax.* or java.* namespace, 
> Oracle got rid of XML technologies housing in these 
> namespaces, and there is now the jakarta.* namespace. 
> 
> Example JAXB: 
> Jakarta XML Binding (JAXB; formerly Java Architecture for XML Binding) 
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta_XML_Binding 
> 
> If I remember well, also XML never went into the Java 
> Language Specification, unlike the Scala programming 
> language, where you can have XML literals: 
> 
> XML literals in scala 
> https://tuttlem.github.io/2015/02/24/xml-literals-in-scala.html 
> 
> An easy protection against tampered XML data vulnerabilities 
> is DTD or some other XML schema language. It can at least catch 
> problems that are in the scope of the schema language.