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Originally Posted by skreutzer
@Toxaris:
What is your impression, are those integration problems caused by proprietary applications and their questionable data formats or by the lack of tools that would translate and interact between XML formats if it were in XML? At least for publishing, there are huge advantages in XML-based workflows, and it is widely used in various ways. What kind of formats are increasing in application integration, binary ones with corresponding APIs to access them?
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Binary with corresponding API's? We are not in the 90's anymore... Although certain SaaS vendors think a little different about that. The problem with XML is not the tools. They work fine. However, XML is bloated and slow compared to other formats. For a few messages that is not a big issue, but for a large number of messages it really counts. The fact that is widely used has nothing to do with the fact that it is a perfect format, but just that sometimes it is the best of the rest.
You are really too much focussed on 'proprietary applications and their questionable dataformats'. These are not the 90's anymore. Applications that really matter all support open formats besides some closed ones.
I am just saying that there are more efficient formats and they are gaining ground fast. One of those formats is JSON. Not always the best, but then again the best format for the job at hand needs to be chosen.
Now, lets get back on topic.