• From: "Toby Considine" <Toby.Considine@g...>
• To: "'Costello, Roger L.'" <costello@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 10:46:31 -0500

That might be right for types of XML documents. If we go into instances of
xml documents, 1% read by people is way too high...

Of course, that is a SWAG


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-----Original Message-----
From: Costello, Roger L. [mailto:costello@m...] 
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 8:13 AM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject:  Percentage of XML documents exclusively processed by
machines?

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?

/Roger

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