Re: Why XML to comunicate Distributed Components?

On 2008-02-27 11:17:44 -0600, carofe <carlosrf82@xxxxxxxxx> said:

Well, the purposing of this post is to find good reason about xml
technology as message format.
My question is: Why the communication between components should be
XML?

The primary advantage to using XML is that it is a standard. You can find tools that support it, and vendors that can communicate with it. This is a biggie, and probably overrides most of the negatives.

In nearly every other way XML is a pretty poor mechanism for serializing data. It's bloated, redundant, overspecified, and hard to read.

There are better formats out there. Yaml, JSon, etc. And for transporting data between machines a binary representation like x.409 would be better.

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