With the advent of standardized, highly structured markup languages, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML), the decreasing costs of data storage, and faster and cheaper data communication networks, compromises between human-readability and machine-readability are now more common-place than they were in the past.
随着标准化、高度结构化的标记语言（如XML）的出现，数据存储的成本降低以及更快、更低廉的数据通信网络使人们在人类可读性与机器可读性之间的折衷较以往更加常见。