• From: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:58:46 +0100

On 26/06/18 17:16, Ian Graham wrote:
> This has been fun!

Best we've had in weeks :-)
> But development teams aren't stupid: they think hard and pick the tools
> they believe will make them and their business successful. 

Right. I just think they were initially misled into believing that XML
was a suitable format for rectangular data in the circumstances in which
they wanted it.

> To know why XML isn't picked, someone needs to talk with teams who
> made/make these decisions, and find out why XML (and associated tools)
> wasn't (and won't be) picked.
> 
> An XML list is not the best forum for obtaining that answer ;-}

Nor would a JSON forum :-)

///Peter
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