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I suggest this is an impossible (or very hard to define) metric. What constitutes an "XML Document" for purposes of this metric ? Does a SOAP or REST call that sends and receives XML that lasts for a few milliseconds count as 1 "XML Document" ? Or do documents have to be "stored" to count as unique documents. ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee dlee@c... http://www.xmlsh.org -----Original Message----- From: Michael Sokolov [mailto:sokolov@i...] Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 10:14 AM To: Costello, Roger L. Cc: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: Percentage of XML documents exclusively processed by machines? On 12/3/2011 8:12 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'll take a wild guess and say that 99% of all XML documents are exclusively processed by machines. Is that a reasonable estimate? That's not at all my experience. Almost all the XML we handle (documents) has been authored by humans, and eventually is viewed by humans. In the interim, it's processed by humans. All of this is done with the aid of machines, of course, but very little if any of it goes completely unobserved by humans. Eventually, once our development process is complete, we get out of the middle steps, but humans are still involved in the production and consumption of the documents. The exception to this is some transactional processing on the business side of our operations, but that represents a tiny fraction of the XML in our world (academic reference publishing). (Even in that area, humans enter the data that gets transformed into XML, and eventually view it too.) Maybe that says something about the economics of our business :) -Mike _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
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