On 29/05/2022 16:05, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex wrote:
> On 29.05.2022 16:52, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> On 29/05/2022 14:56, Roger L Costello wrote:
>>> Would you provide an example of something that cannot be expressed in
>>> XML but can be expressed in some other data language, please?
>>
>> Overlap.
>
> I was about to give the same answer, but overlap can be indeed be
> expressed in XML, albeit sometimes clumsily
:-) Yes, I should have been more precise: overlap can be expressed but
not represented.
> So the question should be more like: Are there more natural fits as
> languages for expressing some data.
CSV is better at expressing row-and-column type data.
Various forms of database are better at expressing other layouts of
atomic and relational data.
XML remains better at continuous text.
Peter
