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I inherited an application from a person who was apparently taken with XML. The app's data and output was kept in his own home-brewed XML format with hand writ

by rrmm 11y ago

I inherited an application from a person who was apparently taken with XML. The app's data and output was kept in his own home-brewed XML format with hand written output and parser functions. His understanding of XML was as follows: Put whatever you want between '<' '>'. It certainly beats reading the w3c docs. Needless to say, I rewrote the application from scratch.

krylon 11y ago
> His understanding of XML was as follows: Put whatever you want between '<' '>'. Well, in all fairness, somebody with that attitude would give any serialization/data format a bad name. While I am not a fan of XML, you cannot blame that one on it.