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This is exactly what OP is talking about. You have XML instead of ASN.1 Imagine if we had only one way of doing data transfer between computer systems.
by StreamBright 4y ago
This is exactly what OP is talking about. You have XML instead of ASN.1 Imagine if we had only one way of doing data transfer between computer systems.
- pjc50 4y ago> Imagine if we had only one way of doing data transfer between computer systems. Well, that would be deeply inadequate and people would have to invent more of them?
- StreamBright 4y agoI am curious what use cases triggered the development of XML for example.
- pjc50 4y agoThis roughly covers it: https://ccollins.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/a-brief-history-of-xml/ https://ccollins.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/a-brief-history-of... - I hadn't realised SGML was quite so old, though.
- StreamBright 4y ago> At it’s core, XML allows a software engineer the ability to create a vocabulary, and use this vocabulary to describe data. The lols. This is so good to read that XML allows that.