• From: Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@g...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 14:53:33 +0000

On 3 December 2011 13:12, Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> What percentage of XML documents are exclusively processed by machines?
>
> Allow me to explain what I mean by "exclusively processed by machines."
>
> First, consider the opposite - XML documents that are processed by humans. An XML document is received and then displayed directly to a human. Or the XML document is received, transformed to a visually friendly form such as HTML, and then the visually friendly form is displayed to a human.
>
> XML documents that are exclusively processed by machines don't have a human in the loop. An XML document is received and then processed by a machine. No human ever sees the XML.
>
> Are there any statistics on the  percentage of XML documents that are exclusively processed by machines?
>
> I'll take a wild guess and say that 99% of all XML documents are exclusively processed by machines. Is that a reasonable estimate?

A slightly different take on this .. of all the xml documents out
there in my experience they might be looked at by <1% of humans.  But
for those humans it's quite important.

>
> /Roger
>
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