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The importance of labels

Tim Bray:

To oversimplify, XML is winning and ASN.1 is losing. There are a variety of reasons for this, but one of them is that it seems to be more important to know what something is called than what data type it is.

(post title shamelessly stolen from Sam Ruby)

This was the principle behind... well, I can't talk about it.

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