{"id":146,"date":"2006-06-20T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/146"},"modified":"2006-06-20T13:30:46","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T19:30:46","slug":"the-xml-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/146","title":{"rendered":"The XML Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that people tout as a strength of XML is its &#8220;human-readability&#8221;. But we pay a big price, in terms of CPU, bandwidth, and storage, for the terabytes of XML that are parsed, shuffled, and stored without a human eye ever reading them.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, you ever tried to read some of the stuff that comes out of, say, OpenOffice? To call it human-readable is a bit overstated. And don&#8217;t get me started on XML-based scripting languages! I mean it, don&#8217;t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that people tout as a strength of XML is its &#8220;human-readability&#8221;. But we pay a big price, in terms of CPU, bandwidth, and storage, for the terabytes of XML that are parsed, shuffled, and stored without a human eye ever reading them. By the way, you ever tried to read some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,51,56],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-information-technology","tag-software","tag-technology","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}