to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 02:56:47PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: >> to...@tuxteam.de (2018-04-05): >> > But then when I see people proposing XML as structured data >> > representation, I suddenly grow very sad... >> >> Isn't it? > > For the last 6 years I've seen it done a lot, and yes, I speak > of painful experience. > > XML is a baroque, but passable document serialization language. > > But (mis-)using it as a data serialization language must be one > of the worst (and ugliest) misunderstandings IT has had the last > 20 years. >
Don't know about your experience - in the past 10+y I worked a lot with XML. It might be not suitable for the specific case (I am not sure I understood correctly what OPs goal is), but XML does not care what kind of data you will embed as far as it is typed and as a machine exchange language it is exactly what it is intended to be. In terms of serialization it also depends - but the point was to split text and process it.
