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Le Wed, 09 May 2012 16:09:10 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  =

<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a =C3=A9crit:

> On Wed, 09 May 2012 15:56:32 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
>> On 09.05.12 15:00, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>> On Wed, 09 May 2012 07:06:06 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think XML is not good for math.
>>>
>>> XML is not good for anything.  I don't care about Web but in  =

>>> automation it
>>> becomes a growing problem that precious bandwidth and human resource=
s  =

>>> are
>>> spent on chewing XML mess.
>>
>> Writing math papers and making data traveling automation networks
>> seem rather different use cases.
>
> Yes, though XML is usually advocated as a universal solution for
> everything.

Not for everything: for when a standard structured serialization is real=
ly  =

better (and that's often the case).

Then, XML does not came alone, it comes with XSLT, XPath, XQuery and  =

XProc, although these do not apply directly to the serialized data, but =
to  =

the unserialized data tree (for XProc, as a pure pipelined stream). It  =

also comes with standard attributes (even outside of any document type  =

definition), like xml:id, xml:lang, whose content are as much formalized=
  =

as XML is.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity