[Openstreetmap] SVG, JavaScript, DOM, AJAX and web mapping

[Nick Whitelegg]

I think the biggest benefit of XML is that it is a human-readable and
editable, logical, structured format for data. It's the ideal format for
saving and loading application data, and (providing the bandwidth is there)
sending data across the web.

I'm less convinced that it's a catch-all solution for everything, for
example XSLT seems rather messy compared with using a combination of a
traditional programming language and an XML API such as DOM or SAX. But
that's probably just my own personal programming preferences....

I do wish Microsoft Office products would move to XML, or at least some
structured text-based format, rather than the amorphous, non-human-editable
formats they use at the moment. The user would then have much more control
over documents.....

Nick