> Perhaps because of Sax, Xerces, Xalan, JDom, SOAP, MSXML, XSLT,
> XPath .... or perhaps simply because I can read the file and grab what I
> want/need?
>
More specifically, because you can use the tools you ALREADY KNOW...
There are similar tools for many of those things for other formats -
you just don't know about them ;).
> I am myself wondering whether it makes that much difference how
> something becomes a standard w3c, ANSI, ISO, or common use, just as long
> as I can read it, process it, and hand it down stream.
>
Agreed.
> XML helps in the
> reading/processing and open standards help in the passing downstream.
>
Yes and no.
I've seen XML grammars that are more complicated than the
alternative, thus making it harder to read/process...
> .pdf .shp .swf .dxf are published formats but hard to read/process
>
For whom? Using what tools?
Leonard
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