Re: [xml-dev] The Goals of XML at 25, and the one thing that XML now needs
... and don't forget that XML also inherited all the baggage of schema, RDF, etc. etc. which seriously skewed perceptions, even though it was guilt by association.
I think I've seen the 'stack' of schemas, RPC mechanisms, service meshes/registries, etc. reinvented 4 or 5 times over the last 25 years. There's a degree of irreducible complexity that people don't seem to want to deal with there.
I've often thought it'd be interesting to try and push XML back into the browser. It's a shame that most of the word processing tools have moved away from named styles as a primary formatting mechanism which might make that easier.
On Sun, Jul 18, 2021, at 6:44 PM, Arjun Ray wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:52:27 +0200, Marcus Reichardt wrote:| I guess the fixation on JSON by the XML community is because JSON ate| XML's lunch in lucrative enterprise integration, so to speak.Bingo.| The point, though, never has been generic data representation as such,| but publishing information as digital text via markup.Unfortunately, much of the early "marketing" of XML (this is goingback two decades or more) was aimed at the former use case [*], datainterchange. Text interchange, XML's original calling, fell by thewayside.[*] as well as the alleged ease of integration with Java (the otherhot ticket of the time), never mind that generating XML in Java codeinvolved lots of backslash escaping, which for that matter JSON wasn'tany better at..._______________________________________________________________________XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASISto support XML implementation and development. To minimizespam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting.[Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/Or unsubscribe: [email protected]subscribe: [email protected]List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php