The Myth of Human Readability in XML

(Bill Chessman) If you’ve seen my past posts, you know I’ve spent a lot of time on the discussion of EDI vs. XML. In part it’s been a quest to understand why trends seem to flow as they do. Back in December, in response to a post I wrote, Tom Reynolds said as part of his comment, “Let’s admit that EDI is humanly unreadable (this is its real weakness) and XML’s great strength is that it is humanly readable.”