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What's important about XML isn't XML itself. It's specifications, standards, toolset. Just because it can be replicated doesn't it will be. That's probably man-
by xaduha 11y ago
What's important about XML isn't XML itself. It's specifications, standards, toolset. Just because it can be replicated doesn't it will be. That's probably man-centuries of work.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI agree. Though a big part of the XML ecosystem is made of dead ends and very domain-specific stuff. But either way, we need to be precise - let's evaluate XML and XML ecosystem separately. If you're not heavily exploiting the latter, XML is almost never a good choice - because alone by itself, it's just a tree notation that sucks.