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Outliners.com Message ID: 4583
Posted by srdiamond15
2005-11-12 03:59:24
<If nothing else, if something like XML is used, a future programmer can just write a small code for importing the information into a new program.>
What exactly insures this easy translatability from XML? What if thirty years hence, no one knows or cares about XML? Does it then remain a safe bet?
Is XML a sufficiently rich language to allow translation of _all_ the information in any database? I think UltraRecall’s developers have voiced that XML doesn’t fully capture the hierarchies. In trying to export from UR into XML, I’m surprised at how little emerges.
Stephen R. Diamond