Norm and I addressed a narrow realm of this issue comparing various XML scripting approaches
It's not even close to an answer to Rodgers original question but it's an attempt at real metrics
http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol4/html/Lee01/BalisageVol4-Lee01.html
I think the hard part is defining what 'best' or 'better' means
From there you might be able to get metrics but is it valid for your use cases?
real world problems have real world complexities not easily answered in binary
Sent from my iPad (excuse the terseness)
David A Lee
On Dec 28, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Richard Salz <> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I don't buy it -- I was looking for something more rigorous.
>
> A large financial services firm in the Boston area converted from a
> variety of data silo's to an all-XML storage and data-interchange
> infrastructure and was able to decommission a significant number of
> servers.
>
> Is that evidence or anecdote? How can you tell? Suppose I removed all
> the vagueness and replaced it with concrete numbers?
>
> "I know it when I see it" is not an answer.
>
> /r$
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