XML Considered Harmful

[Greg Ewing]

On 25/09/21 10:51 am, dn wrote:
>> XML: Originally invented for text markup, and that shows. Can represent
>> different types (via tags), can define those types (via DTD and/or
>> schemas), can identify schemas in a globally-unique way and you can mix
>> them all in a single document (and there are tools available to validate
>> your files). But those features make it very complex

And for all that complexity, it still doesn't map very well
onto the kinds of data structures used inside programs (lists,
structs, etc.), so you end up having to build those structures
on top of it, and everyone does that in a different way.

-- 
Greg