In a new post, Steve Jones argues that the oft-cited advantage of XML, that the markup language is human readable, may not hold as much water as thought. "XML is not human readable, its not designed ...

Do we need an alternative to human-readable text XML? Is the angle-bracketed payload of text XML becoming too much for our systems to bear? In a recent post, I reported on some swipes at efforts to ...

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Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...