Re: [xml-dev] The Goals of XML at 25, and the one thing that XML now nee

[Arjun Ray <arayq2@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:52:27 +0200, Marcus Reichardt wrote:

| I guess the fixation on JSON by the XML community is because JSON ate
| XML's lunch in lucrative enterprise integration, so to speak. 

Bingo.

| The point, though, never has been generic data representation as such, 
| but publishing information as digital text via markup.

Unfortunately, much of the early "marketing" of XML (this is going
back two decades or more) was aimed at the former use case [*], data
interchange.  Text interchange, XML's original calling, fell by the
wayside.

[*] as well as the alleged ease of integration with Java (the other
hot ticket of the time), never mind that generating XML in Java code
involved lots of backslash escaping, which for that matter JSON wasn't
any better at...