Item 40: Avoid Vendor Lockin;
Beware
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Opaque, binary data used in place of
marked up text.
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Over-abbreviated, inobvious names
like F17354 and grgyt
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APIs that hide the XML
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Products that focus on the "Infoset
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Alternate serializations of XML
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Patented formats