From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@[...].edu> 

>  At 5:51 PM +0100 1/15/02, Nicolas LEHUEN wrote:
>  
>  >Maybe what we try to say is that from a programmatical point of view, there
>  >is no added information in a format where the meta-data is embedded into the
>  >data, compared to a format where meta-data is expressed in a header and pure
>  >data follows. The only advantage is for human eyes ; it is great for
>  >debugging. But one should never think that embedding meta-data within data
>  >gives any advantage to XML vs. "header-then-data" formats.
>  
>  That's exactly what I do think  

What about mixed content?  How do you do that in CSV reasonably? 

What about stream processing of open-content-model XML, where you don't know 
the elements being used until they are encountered?

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe




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