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> XML really isn't that bad. Honestly. It can be (and is) parsed fast, without any schemas at all Only if you agree upfront on some kind of "safe subset" of XM

by vog 10y ago

> XML really isn't that bad. Honestly. It can be (and is) parsed fast, without any schemas at all Only if you agree upfront on some kind of "safe subset" of XML. For example, disabling entity references helps a lot in terms of reducing complexity and protecting from protentially RAM exploding XML documents. But parsing full featured XML is hard and opens a whole can of worms.

davecridland 10y ago
Agreed, which is why XMPP does this.
- vog 10y ago
  Since this distiction is really important, shouldn't we consequently call it "Restricted-XML" (or "restricted-xml" as of RFC 3920) instead of XML?
  - ec109685 10y ago
    Local XML.