Re: XML and JSON

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta skrev  den 28-04-2008 23:00:

> deficiencies, even if has a schema.  For example, in French, the tag 
> should be prenom, not firstname.  So now you need a meta-schema that 
> allows flexible nomenclature.  But it doesn't end there: some cultures 

Trust me, you don't want to go there.

A major help when doing exchange between systems is that you have an 
_English_ description of what you have in your hand.  I have had the 
pleasure of receiving XML documents with tags in Swedish - which is not 
too bad for a Dane though - but also with national characters in the 
tags, which make it very hard to deal with in code as - which character 
set do we save our source code in - and "how do I TYPE this thing?"

It got worse when we had to work on a Finnish system.  Joblogs in 
Finnish are .. eh.. challenging.

XML is meant for computers and programmers (which implicitly means 
working in English), not end-users.