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  3. February 2006

RE: Bob's letter on V5R4 RPG stuff

>What happens when XML goes away for the next flavor?  I'd rather have
generic tools than specific tools which can be built externally from RPG
using RPG and those generic tools.

I am sure there will be a next technology to take XML's place someday, but
the good thing is that XML is being deeply ingrained into the big players
which *should* guarantee a certain amount of shelf life.

There actually already are other standards out there that aim to do the same
thing as XML and were created because of XML's bloated tags.

Here are a couple of the alternatives:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

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