RE: [xml-dev] What is XML For?

[Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>]

> Objects are not data - they are a proprietary/binary representation
> of data that need 'object-interpreters' on both ends.

Proprietary?  No thanks.  Binary?  I'll sacrifice a few IP packets for
interop anytime.

> And the wire
> may not be a wire - it might be a message bus which understands
> those objects.

Sure, but that's beyond the scope of my question.

> XML is data without any assumption of 'interpreters' on either
> end plus it does not impose a medium of transmission.

Okay, so it's a superset of objects on the wire.
	/r$