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>
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 :-)
