Re: [xml-dev] Fixing what's broke

[Philip Fearon <pgfearo@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:24 AM,  <vojtech.toman@emc.com> wrote:
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> But in XML, if I look at it as a data exchange format, I am not sure if introducing more relaxed parsing rules would do any good. More options often lead to confusion and to more room for making mistakes, and the last thing you want is to get unexpected (maybe completely correct wrt the parsing/recovery rules, but unexpected to the data author nonetheless) results from the XML parser on the receiving side.
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XML works extremely well as the foundation for a data exchange format,
I think the OData protocol[1] shows a lot of promise in this area -
admittedly this provides for both XML and JSON solutions.

Phil Fearon
http://qutotic.com

[1] http://www.odata.org/developers/protocols/overview