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To: Dan Spillane who wrote (52450)	10/31/2000 2:48:21 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) of 74651

There is only one problem with XML: It isn't optimal. The best data format is usually: - Easy to implement correct. XML requires a parser and is difficult to implement those places, where a parser is not available. - Easy to learn. XML formats are often much more complicated than CSV formats, configuration file formats etc. - Easy to handle. XML doesn't support appending data to the file, and many commonly installed tools on many OS's like tac, grep, cut etc. don't work with XML. Many people will find it difficult to use XML for other things than to read in a parser. Having different versions doesn't make life easier. - Compatible. Well, XML is compatible in a way, but then again, two different systems, that haven't agreed upon a specific XML file format, cannot talk XML together. So XML itself isn't application compatible, only parser-compatible. - Fast. XML has the same characteristics as ASCII here, because it is ASCII. Please explain how you see XML as being "optimal"?

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