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Back in the early days of XML, Internet Explorer would insert "+" characters to fold nested sections of XML. And was the default program to open .xml files. G
by chiph 10y ago
Back in the early days of XML, Internet Explorer would insert "+" characters to fold nested sections of XML. And was the default program to open .xml files. Guess what showed up in the documents I got from an integration partner?
- cptskippy 10y agoI think if you select/copied what was displayed you'd get the plus and minus signs. If you saved that wouldn't happen.
- firewalkwithme 10y agoIt still does! and I get corrupted files like that mailed to weekly by integration partners. I may be wrong but I think FF also adds some crap to xml files when used as a viewer. I actually like xml, for some reason the structure of it makes alot of sense to me, while json is untidy and confusing
- Slartie 10y agoGuess what caused a serious outage of a system at a customer that I know, with an estimated impact on his bottom line in the seven-digit area? Yeah, right: naive copying of some XML out of IE into the configuration of said system. Including those '+' characters, which resulted in it not exactly being XML anymore.
- kyllo 10y agoI once got an XML file from an integration partner where the whole thing was XML escaped (all the tags looked like <node>value</node>) because they had embedded it within an outer "envelope" XML file. They saw nothing wrong with this and argued when I questioned it. I wonder how they were planning to express escape sequences within the inner XML document that was already escaped...
- nitrogen 10y agoIt's ugly of course, but a parser should have no problem with &amp; or &lt;. It can go arbitrarily deep.