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The reasons XML is complicated

XML's roots are in document management. Since then a perverse enthusiasm has arisen to apply it in areas where it is totally inappropriate, most significantly in data management.

As anyone who has worked with old style hierarchical databases and relational databases will tell you, from a data management point of view XML is merely a recreation of the outmoded hierarchical methods. These were superceded by the relational model because the relational model is in every respect simpler and more flexible. Simpler because it is based on a concise set of principles defined before anyone actually built a relational database in software.

XML has no such theoretical grounding. Therefore the attempt to use it for data management has led to ever more desperate ("hacked" you might say) attempts to fix the problems (first X/Path then X/Query). Hence XML's complexity.

However, you can't get away from the fact that hierarchies are totally inadequate for solving real world problems.

Hence, I am completely confident, in spite of all the hype that XML has no long term future.

Posted by: jorwell   Posted on: 03/31/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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