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

[Marcus Reichardt <u123724@gmail.com>]

I think it's difficult to answer how long something will be around.
There are ways to structure your code such that payload serialization
is abstracted-away over XML or JSON for simple, non-document-oriented
data if that's the concern; in fact, that's common practice and has
been for a long time in Java backends (eg. using
Spring/jackson-databind, or POJOs with JAXB + json-binding
annotations). Also, in case you don't know yet, I'd like to link
Parsing JSON is a Minefield [1].

[1]: https://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html

Best,
M. Reichardt
sgml.io

On 11/10/21, Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de> wrote:
>  Hi Stephen, this is only an aspect, not more: validation. JSON Schema is
> powerful, but I think there are three disadvantages: first, it is not yet a
> finalized standard; second, its implementations are not yet as mature as XSD
> validators; third, JSON Schema is not so much a document modeling language
> as XSD is; JSON Schemas can be written in ways that make it difficult, if
> not impossible, to derive a structure model (or grammar) of valid documents.
> (Sounds paradoxical, but isn't: the schema maps any document to valid or
> not, but does not clearly imply the structure of a valid document.)
>
> With kind regards,Hans-Jürgen
>
>     Am Dienstag, 9. November 2021, 17:30:55 MEZ hat Stephen D Green
> <stephengreenubl@gmail.com> Folgendes geschrieben:
>
>  Hi XML Dev’ers,
> 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--
> ----Stephen D Green