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Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...> writes: > > > > > > OK, so how would you archive the results of a national > > > census? That's about as structured as you get. I would do > it in XML. > > > > There are really three issues implied in this question: archive and > > public and private access. > > You might read three questions but I only wrote one. I asked > about archive. Ok. Archive for who? > > If one has to mix the concerns > > then XML is > > as good as anything. Personally, I'd rather separate them, > generating > > XML for public access as needed. > > You don't have to mix the concerns, and I didn't... I was > asking about archive. Archive isn't an isolated capability. Archive implies capability for usage. Usage implies a mix of concerns. Does placing a inscribed stone tablet in a air tight iron box meet the requirements of archive if no one knows how to interprett the inscriptions on the stone tablet at any point in time? > > Personally, I'd want to know more about any application > requirements > > before I'd say that XML alone would be sufficient. > > The requirement for archiving a national census is to > maximize the probability of being able to extract the > information, without loss, and to minimize the cost of doing > so, in say 100 years' time. Given this requirement I'd tend to stay away from any computer based media or formats XML or otherwise...
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