> > As to whether "XML is a particularly good format not only here or for > anything", all I can say is that in my experience we (humanity, that is) > have not yet come up with anything better; LaTeX 2e, by explicitly > permitting the conflation of form and content, fails abysmally in this > respect (IMHO, of course). >
Well I think that JSON is currently the next hot thing in computing together with big data. Many consider that JSON will eventually replace XML. Also, about the PDF format I think that archivable PDF http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000252.shtml is very important. A.S. ---------------------- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex