« on: December 11, 2012, 07:47:50 PM »
Advantages & Disadvantages of XML
Advantage of XML:
It is text-based.
It is platform-independent.
It manifests as plain text files.
Integrating with Existing Data Types
Extensibility
It supports Unicode (allowing information in any language).
It can represent data structures: records, lists and trees.
It is based on international standards.
The hierarchical structure is suitable for most types of documents.
It makes parsing algorithms simple, efficient, and consistent. .
Disadvantage of XML :
Syntax is redundant or large relative to binary representations of similar data
The hierarchy schemata can be limiting
Syntax is verbose relative to other alternative 'text-based' formats.
More difficult, demanding, and precise than HTML
It does not support data types, such as 'integer', 'string', 'boolean', and so on.
Lack of browser support/end user applications
The hierarchical model for representation is limited in comparison to an object oriented model.
Namespaces are problematic to use and support
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