Who is actually using native XML?
Question of the day #2
Who is actually using native XML?
Mark Logic is having a fine time using its native XML engine for custom publishing. One outfit I know of is using a native XML for something like web analytics, but is driving me crazy by never coming through on permission to divulge details. There’s a bit of native XML use out there supporting the insurance industry’s ACORD standard.
And after that I quickly run out of examples of native XML use. Frankly, I expected Microsoft and IBM to have proved more by now in that regard than they seemingly have, to the point that it would be a competitive problem for Oracle. (Oops — can’t get ‘em all right.)
Am I overlooking anything?
Logistical comments as per Question of the day #1.
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January 28th, 2008 at 6:35 am
The point is that main software vendors have no interest to use XML, it would allow people to leave them once converted everything into XML. Small vendors, at the contrary, do use XML as it allows people to join them.
This is the reason why we use XML, with this source documents, we can produce whatever we want as an output for our client. Just write the correct XSL and the “heavy integration job” with the client system is done.