Re: The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world

On 29/05/2022 16:05, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex wrote:
> On 29.05.2022 16:52, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> On 29/05/2022 14:56, Roger L Costello wrote:
>>> Would you provide an example of something that cannot be expressed in 
>>> XML but can be expressed in some other data language, please?
>>
>> Overlap.
> 
> I was about to give the same answer, but overlap can be indeed be 
> expressed in XML, albeit sometimes clumsily

:-) Yes, I should have been more precise: overlap can be expressed but 
not represented.

> So the question should be more like: Are there more natural fits as 
> languages for expressing some data.

CSV is better at expressing row-and-column type data.
Various forms of database are better at expressing other layouts of 
atomic and relational data.
XML remains better at continuous text.

Peter

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