Unhealthy obsession with XML formats
XML Spawns Data Bureaucracy
In its natural habitat, data lives in relational databases or as data structures in programs. The common import and export formats of these environments do not resemble XML, so much effort is dedicated to making XML fit. When more time is spent on inter-converting data — serializing, parsing,translating — than in using it, you’ve created a data bureaucracy.
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