What is XML for?

[Frank Boumphrey]

>>but rather, whether XML itself
-- that is, text files conforming to XML 1.0 -- should be used as the
primary storage medium for large applications<<

Perhaps not the primary storage medium, but certainly as the backup medium.

Frank

Frank Boumphrey

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----- Original Message -----
From: David Megginson <david at megginson.com>
To: XML Developers' List <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 1999 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: What is XML for?


>Simon St.Laurent writes:
>
> > XML is not just a file format any more, or an interchange format.
> > XML describes a set of structures that are extremely generic, and
> > which map very well to a wide variety of structures used in data
> > processing.
>
>Actually, strictly speaking, XML 1.0 *is* just a file format, or more
>accurately, a meta-format.  As soon as an XML document is converted
>into SAX events or a DOM tree or SQL tables or persistent objects or
>anything else, it's not XML anymore (though it can, perhaps, be
>written back out as XML, depending on the application).
>
>The question that we're discussing is not whether the rich recursive
>and hierarchical structures that XML can model are useful (I know from
>eight years' experience that they are), but rather, whether XML itself
>-- that is, text files conforming to XML 1.0 -- should be used as the
>primary storage medium for large applications.
>
>
>All the best,
>
>
>David
>
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