Re: [xml-dev] Four fine text-based data formats ... liberate yourselffro

[Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:

The cases I've had with the most pushback were geodata, which is
probably a worst-case scenario.  It combines a lot of tiny pieces that
get a lot of markup (way beyond <lat> and <long>) with huge pieces of
binary data that have the same kinds of issues as geodata.

Oi!  That definitely touches a nerve!  Geodata XML formats are abominations.  I had to do a lot of work with KML last year and what the hell was anyone thinking coding that in XML?!

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