Talk:Semi-structured data

This sentence...

is a bad joke...

"Semi-structured data[1] is a form of structured data that does not conform with the formal structure of tables and data models associated with databases but contains nonetheless tags or other markers to separate semantic elements and hirarchies of records and fields within the data." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.23.79.233 (talk) 16:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Disadvantages

About: "Disadvantages: The traditional relational data model has a popular and ready-made query language, SQL."

This is very poorly stated.

That is not a disadvantage of semi-structured data, but an advantage of traditional data.

Of course we understand the intent, i.e., that a disadvantage of semi-structured data is that it has no such language.

But we should say explicitly what we mean, instead of requiring the reader to implicitly bridge that gap by mentally inverting the logic. Toddcs (talk) 13:26, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

XML readability

> Understanding even a portion of such an XML document by reading it, let alone catching errors in its structure, is impossible without a deep prior understanding of the specific XML implementation, along with assistance by software that understands the XML schema that has been employed. Such text is not "human-understandable" any more than a book written in Swahili, which uses the Latin alphabet, would be to a reader who does not know a word of that language but recognizes only its alphabet.

This part does not seem to be written in the correct style for wikipedia. I also do not know why this topic is particularly relevant to this article. I think the whole paragraph should be deleted, or at least reworded significantly. ~2026-46801-17 (talk) 07:42, 27 August 2026 (UTC)