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On 4/29/10 3:48 PM, Boheemen, Peter van wrote: >> But all the flaws of XML can be traced back to SGML which is >> why we now use JSON despite all of its limitations. >> > excuse me, but JSON is something completely different. It is an object notation and in not at all usable to structure data. Don't let the CouchDB guys know that: http://couchdb.apache.org/ or any of the other JSON-based API builders either. > XML is great to describe complex data, but it is often badly used, like in MARC XML (ISO 2709 described in XML). And it is musunderstood by a lot of programmmers that only thing in strings, integers and the lot<str name="array1>water</str> > > >> In his vision of Xanadu every piece of published information had a >> unique ID that was reused everytimes the publication was referenced - >> which would solve our problem. >> > Keep on dreaming Jakob :-) >