Heh... I don't believe so. I know a lot of people really like XML for what it does but I hate it for what it does. For example, how many bytes does it take to pass a single 10 digit negative integer using XML... 18.
<i>-1234567890</i>
How many bytes does it take to pass the same thing in an encoded ASCII file? 4... and that includes the sign.
How many bytes does it take to pass a single digit using XML? 8.
<i>-1234567890</i>
How many bytes does it take to pass a single digit in plain text ASCII? 1.
Heh... and to think people were worried about the extra 2 bytes to store 4 digit years just a couple of decades ago. 😀
Speaking of that, the good thing about XML (and HTML, for that matter) is network hardware had to get a whole lot faster, memory had to get a whole lot larger, disks had to get a whole lot bigger, and CPUs had to get a whole lot faster to handle tag bloat, de-entitization, and shredding. :w00t:
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.