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XML XML XML...By Paul A. FortinAll we hear about today in computer science has to do with XML... We have XML databases, XML Documents, XSLT to format and use XML documents, and so many other XML based stuff....What is XML? XML is data surrounded by Text tags that identify the data within, as an example: "Stephen King". So we know in this case that the Author is Stephen King, and I could change it to Johanna Lindsey if i needed to or wanted to. But if you notice the data is 12 bytes long but the tags are 19 so we have more than doubled the size of the data to satisfy out need to be able to read the data. At my work all the data id being sent using WebSphere MQ and to WebSphere Application Servers and that data is, you got it, in XML format. Why? as far as I can tell no good reason as simply sending the data in a csv file would make it 10-20 times smaller. XML has it's areas but most people have made it the panacea and it is not! OK! OK! OK! My rant is over.... |