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Elliotte,
You'd be surprised the number of companies that still
use floppy disks to send out data. So many find they
can use CSV because it fits on a floppy, and are unable
to use xml because it won't fit.
I don't think it's a perfect world. but that's just
how it is.
Quoting Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>:
> david.lyon@computergrid.net wrote:
>
>
> >>>In XML 1.0, we have a larger file with no type information
> >>>and in the computergrid format, we have type information as
> >>>well as a saving of around 35% or 2,680,000 bytes.
> >>>
> >>
> >>It's smaller, though somehow I doubt that's important....
> >
> >
> > Well, it can be important in a business context. People in
> > business don't have unlimited time. If a pricelist or any
> > document takes too long to load up... they'll simply
> > give the ctrl-alt-delete and give up. They have no love
> > for the computers, I can assure you.
>
> In 2005 I find it hard to believe any business computer or network would
> notice or care about a 2.5 MB savings. Perhaps if you were working in an
> embedded environment, but in that case you're probably not using XML
> anyway.
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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