Re: [xml-dev] It's too late to improve XML ... lessons learned?

[Damian Morris <damian@moso.com.au>]

> On 31 Dec 2021, at 11:45 am, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org> wrote:
> 
>> But it's mostly irrelevant at this stage; a historical warning about
>> standards development. If you want to exchange data nowadays, the
>> trend seems to be to use JSON, unless your processes are already
>> using XML for other purposes.
> 
> Linked Data has some merits. The biggest question beyond that for me
> is, who is to be in control of the format of the data? If it's the
> application developer at the receiving end, use JSON. If the data is to
> be vendor-neutral and have a long lifespan, consider XML.

That’s a great in-a-nutshell summary of the respective trade-offs and thus the appropriate use cases (for me, anyway).

Cheers,

Damian