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What is the advantage of XML over JSON for nontrivial, non-naive data structures? Do you mean things like XLink/XPointer? (Or where can I go to read more about
by tjgabbour 17y ago
What is the advantage of XML over JSON for nontrivial, non-naive data structures? Do you mean things like XLink/XPointer? (Or where can I go to read more about this?)
I've gotten the informal impression that incidental complexity (you know, complexity arising not from the problem but the solution) is a factor behind the hugeness of the XML ecosystem, but I'd be happy to learn otherwise...
- uriel 17y ago> I've gotten the informal impression that incidental complexity (you know, complexity arising not from the problem but the solution) is a factor behind the hugeness of the XML ecosystem You are absolutely correct. As Phil Wadler put it: "The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well." It makes a trivial issue into a byzantine enterprise. But, it has created a whole industry of 'experts', standard committees and other busybodies, so it must be good for the economy at least!