EMBL: Comparing a Legacy Data-Format with its XML-Offspring

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is becoming the ubiquitous format for storing data in  many applications as well as transferring data between even more applications. Born in the mid 90s, it is a child of the Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML), which was intended to prepare documents for machine processing.¹ It is therefore not surprising that […]