>And one could argue (strongly) that any
>individual database format (Oracle data files,
>Mysql data files, etc., etc.) is
>_technologically_ superior to XML for data
>exchange, especially considering the much
>stronger typing allowed.
yeah, right I could very well process the control and header blocks of Oracle data files and all those binary weirdos!!
If you atleast consider computer data formatting as a technology, XML is the first improvisation of that available openly and freely for that purpose, which somebody could use in a timely manner.
XML is the one close to WYSWYG of all data formatting, that on an eye ball look of it , the data can be locally understood partially atleast.
I don't know if the Author has looked at RDF specs, i.e the machine understandable Vs machine readable.
It is NOT to argue that Government activities can be abstracted into a schema of sorts. But it could very well become that, what cannot be abstracted is too costly to be practised. Merely on the basis of COST , a lot of junk that goes on in government could get "Naturally Selected OUT" .
Well I could be talking in the scale of 100s of years.
But the way the Author scoffs at privatisation efforts , makes me think that he is one those that is fond of Government and its complexities.
Half of what is going there is wasteful activity isn't it?
Already there are calls for briging a "PLAIN ENGLISH" amendment to the constitution. Which means many lawyers will be out of business??
Yeah, what cannot be abstracted into a schema will GO OUT of practice :) :) :) LOL fun...
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