Re: [xml-dev] How long before services sending/receiving XML mightneed r

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

It's not broken, why fix it?

Of course nothing is ever perpetual. But data interchange standards tend to endure long past their sell-by date. Why not focus on fixing some of the many pre-XML formats that still pervade legacy systems instead?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 9 Nov 2021, at 16:30, Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi XML Dev’ers,
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> Do you have any opinion on how long software systems communicating with each other (one-way or two-way) using XML might be able to continue to use XML this way? If, say, governments currently require data or documents to be sent to them in XML format, what professional advice would you suggest about how long would be reasonable before this use of XML should be replaced? Or do you think such uses of XML could reasonably be perpetual? 
> 
> Many thanks for your consideration.
> 
> Stephen Green
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> Stephen D Green