I am trying to convince some senior people at my company of the advantages of transmitting data in a structured format between two of our systems.
Currently one system outputs flat text files and complicated parsers have to be written to extract the data on the other side. Every time the data is changed, the 'positions' have to be adjusted and it's a headache to maintain and test.
Both sides here have inbuilt facilities for creating and manipulating XML, so what I'm after is a persuasive article, document, blog post, etc introducing XML (or any other markup language really) as an alternative to flat text aimed at people who may not have worked with it before.
Many thanks
Don't underestimate yourself, first. Passion will win them over. It's the most important ingredient in a fight like this. Besides, truth is on your side here. It is extensible markup language after all. Extensible is in the name!
Here are a couple of articles to help you ...