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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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To: Dan Spillane who wrote (52378)	10/30/2000 3:40:56 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Sorry, Dan, but this is just what marketing could tell me. There are lots of ways to make data and formatting independant. XML is just another way, and often a more complicated way. I know that XML can represent a database transaction or a table. So can an .ini file, an HTML file, a PDF file - you name it. Where is the benefit? Comma separated files does most data conversion needed. Only blob fields have trouble with comma separated stuff, but even that can be handled as easy as with XML. The biggest problem with XML is, that you need a parser to read it. Most tools I use have XML parsers, but the programmers I need to exchange data with, often find it easier to use other file formats than an XML parser, so XML is skipped. XML is very incompatible with almost everything, because every XML file is different. You cannot deliver an XML file without a specification for what it contains. Having XML support in all MS Apps is like having support for comma separated files and ASCII files in all MS Apps. And that has allways been present. Now that all this is clear: Can anyone tell me the BENEFITS of XML?

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