In a new post, Steve Jones argues that the oft-cited advantage of XML, that the markup language is human readable, may not hold as much water as thought. "XML is not human readable, its not designed ...

Do we need an alternative to human-readable text XML? Is the angle-bracketed payload of text XML becoming too much for our systems to bear? In a recent post, I reported on some swipes at efforts to ...

Ten years is a long time in IT. But in the world of database systems, a ten year old technology is barely out of kindergarten. Relational databases took a decade to move from the labs to ...