Talk:Semi-structured data

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"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)