Re:XML Appliance
by mcculley on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:44AM
(#35374543)
Maven is not a great example of the strengths of XML, as another comment describes.
I use XML a lot in favor of JSON because I can pass around a machine readable schema (yes, I know JSON now has some schema support) and because I can represent things like cycles and comments and numbers that are something other than 64-bit floating point values.
I use XML a lot in favor of JSON because I can pass around a machine readable schema (yes, I know JSON now has some schema support) and because I can represent things like cycles and comments and numbers that are something other than 64-bit floating point values.