Comments on: The Myth of Human Readability in XML http://blogs.inovis.com/2008/03/24/the-myth-of-human-readability-in-xml/ Power Profitable Business Communities™ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: EDI vs. XML - how readable is XML? at EDI Talk - Vendor Compliance and Electronic Data Interchange http://blogs.inovis.com/2008/03/24/the-myth-of-human-readability-in-xml/#comment-1080 EDI vs. XML - how readable is XML? at EDI Talk - Vendor Compliance and Electronic Data Interchange Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:08:52 +0000 http://inovis.wordpress.com/?p=494#comment-1080 [...] the Inovis blog, Bill Chessman ponders about the human readability of XML vs. EDI.  A different take on an old [...] [...] the Inovis blog, Bill Chessman ponders about the human readability of XML vs. EDI.  A different take on an old [...]

]]> By: Craig Dunham http://blogs.inovis.com/2008/03/24/the-myth-of-human-readability-in-xml/#comment-1077 Craig Dunham Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:39:59 +0000 http://inovis.wordpress.com/?p=494#comment-1077 I posted in an article over at the EDITalk blog - all based upon this post. Sure, XML can be "human readable" - but at what cost....? Once you throw in all the characters for the open tags and close tags and the DTD and/or schema, and you are adding MAJOR character counts to your transmissions. All so you can send something that is "human readable"...? Can't your end system just generate a human readable report of the data being entered into your system via EDI...? I posted in an article over at the EDITalk blog – all based upon this post.

Sure, XML can be “human readable” – but at what cost….? Once you throw in all the characters for the open tags and close tags and the DTD and/or schema, and you are adding MAJOR character counts to your transmissions. All so you can send something that is “human readable”…? Can’t your end system just generate a human readable report of the data being entered into your system via EDI…?

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