XML Considered Harmful
Mostowski Collapse
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Fri Sep 24 10:55:34 EDT 2021
Or then use cryptographic methods to protect your XML
file when in transit. Like encryption and/or signatures.
Mostowski Collapse schrieb am Freitag, 24. September 2021 um 15:46:27 UTC+2:
> BTW: I think its problematic to associate Java with XML.
> Michael F. Stemper schrieb am Dienstag, 21. September 2021 um 20:12:33 UTC+2:
> > On the prolog thread, somebody posted a link to:
> > <https://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html>
> The above linke is very old, from 2004, and might apply
> how Java presented itself back in those days. But since
> the Jigsaw project, XML has practically left Java.
>
> Its all not anymore part of the javax.* or java.* namespace,
> Oracle got rid of XML technologies housing in these
> namespaces, and there is now the jakarta.* namespace.
>
> Example JAXB:
> Jakarta XML Binding (JAXB; formerly Java Architecture for XML Binding)
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta_XML_Binding
>
> If I remember well, also XML never went into the Java
> Language Specification, unlike the Scala programming
> language, where you can have XML literals:
>
> XML literals in scala
> https://tuttlem.github.io/2015/02/24/xml-literals-in-scala.html
>
> An easy protection against tampered XML data vulnerabilities
> is DTD or some other XML schema language. It can at least catch
> problems that are in the scope of the schema language.
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