{"id":1247,"date":"2006-01-20T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2006\/01\/20\/assuming-xml-extensibility\/"},"modified":"2006-01-20T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T16:03:00","slug":"assuming-xml-extensibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/01\/assuming-xml-extensibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Assuming XML extensibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/rfc\/rfc2518.txt\">RFC 2518<\/a> (WebDAV);<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/rfc\/rfc2518.txt\">\nXML has been chosen because it is a flexible, self-describing, structured data format that supports rich schema definitions, and because of its support for multiple character sets.  XML&#8217;s self- describing nature allows any property&#8217;s value to be extended by adding new elements.  Older clients will not break when they encounter extensions because they will still have the data specified in the original schema and <em>will ignore elements they do not understand<\/em>.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>(emphasis mine)<\/p>\n\n<p>Hey, I wonder where it says that in the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-xml\">XML Rec<\/a>? 8-)<\/p>\n\n<p>See also; a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/Talks\/2004-xmlself\/slide1-0.html\">presentation of mine<\/a>\nwhich talks about self-descriptively extensible XML.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From RFC 2518 (WebDAV); XML has been chosen because it is a flexible, self-describing, structured data format that supports rich schema definitions, and because of its support for multiple character sets. XML&#8217;s self- describing nature allows any property&#8217;s value to be extended by adding new elements. Older clients will not break when they encounter extensions [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}