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The XML world while a relative island is not isolated from new developments. There were several talks about AI (which is quite interesting with structured markup). The popular XML editor Oxygen has AI features to help people with authoring and XML generation.
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There is a whole ecosystem of people and companies here at #XMLPrague
There are various conferences too.The average age of the XML community is rather high which means it is at risk of fading. (I am no baby myself)
But these cultural traditions have value.
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I am making casual software developer anthropologist remarks about the XML community and obviously I am not quite an outside observer either. But I have participated in a bunch of dev communities over time.
#XMLPrague and
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It's also fascinating that XML languages like xpath gained maps and arrays in 2017, in large part because they needed JSON support.
I just heard the phrase "now that we have maps and arrays" in a talk, as it can help in a new version of a restful web framework spec. That's an example of how things move slowly as in this culture things don't fully exist unless they are in a spec.
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It's interesting that in the XML community they have standardized a restful web framework. So you have multiple implementations. It looks like a reasonable web framework too.
Different cultures and software traditions with a focus on standards. I think standards were more prominent in the minds of devs in earlier days of the web. This culture has preserved that.
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Observation at #XMLPrague that XPath 3.1 takes a lot more time to implement than JSONPath or XPath 1.0
I can attest to that; implementing a mostly conformant xpath 3.1 implementation took me about a year