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I'll raise the recent piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, "XML Raises Concerns as it Gains Prominence," in the May issue of IEEE Computer mag as a less well considered criticism of XML.
The article says XML raises several key concerns, among them:
1) because they provide considerable information about a document's content, xml files include much more data than HTML files. This is a burden to a company's network, processor and storage infrastructures.
2) extensively describing a document's contents and appearing in plain text creates security concerns.
3) many developers may not be cooperating with the effort to transition to XML via XHTML.
Proposed solutions
1) buy a centralized $35k + appliance to translate between XML and binary formats
2) use and XML firewall to inspect each packet, deploy extensive directory services, and use secure sockets.
3) none suggested. "This transition would force [developers] to learn a new set of skills and require them to rewrite their older code..."
Contrasted to the Hunt and Thomas article, articles like this make me worry.
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