Phil Factor shares some musings:
What can be so difficult in creating a sensible standard for Structured Data Documents? To understand why they tend to get improved into unusable complexity, I’ll need to explain a bit of background.
Structured Data Documents come in three different flavors. There are the text files that represent object data, text files that represent tabular data (rows and columns) and text data for the values of the settings, initialization or configuration of applications.
Read on for Phil’s take on the matter.