{"id":86,"date":"2003-02-01T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-02T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=227"},"modified":"2003-02-01T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-02T02:18:00","slug":"xml-isnt-just-a-data-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2003\/02\/xml-isnt-just-a-data-format\/","title":{"rendered":"XML Isn&#8217;t Just a Data Format?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0108971\/2003\/01\/31.html#a102\">Clemens Vasters writes<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nI am sorry to say that, but if today you still believe and insist that XML is just another data format, the train may already have left the station for you.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Well, then I guess my train is long gone.  Ouch.  Sorry Clemens, but\nXML <em>is<\/em> just a data format.  Now, good data formats like XML are\nnothing to sneeze at, and I&#8217;m glad we have it, just like I&#8217;m glad we\nhave\/had ASCII.  But for heaven&#8217;s sake, it&#8217;s just syntax, a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Context-free_grammar\">context free\ngrammar<\/a>.\n\n<p>He also stated;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nOne of the core messages of my talk is that the XML InfoSet is the focus of integration.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>IMO, this is like saying C structs are the focus of integration.  Ok, so\nyou and I agree on what one is, and perhaps even how its represented.  Now\nwhat?  How do we integrate?  We can&#8217;t, at least with just that shared knowledge.\nIf we also shared a model for how to identify, exchange, and manipulate them,\nthen <em>that<\/em> could form a focus for integration.  Which is, of course, akin\nto what REST tries to do around a more general abstraction called a resource.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clemens Vasters writes; I am sorry to say that, but if today you still believe and insist that XML is just another data format, the train may already have left the station for you. Well, then I guess my train is long gone. Ouch. Sorry Clemens, but XML is just a data format. Now, good [&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-86","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\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}