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XML was always intended more for machine than for human consumption. It's easier for machines to consume extremely regular syntax, so that's what XML has.
by JadeNB 8y ago
XML was always intended more for machine than for human consumption. It's easier for machines to consume extremely regular syntax, so that's what XML has.
- agumonkey 8y agounfortunately it had its time as a pseudo programming language period..
- JadeNB 8y ago> unfortunately it had its time as a pseudo programming language period.. You are quite right. I should probably have said something more like "XML was intended by its creators more for machine than human consumption" (and, incidentally, creation; I think I have read that XML construction wasn't really intended to be done by humans either).