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Yeah. I never got the hate for XML. I feel like it was always mismatched expectations: some people wanted something the Markdown of configuration files, and oth
by krapht 7y ago
Yeah. I never got the hate for XML. I feel like it was always mismatched expectations: some people wanted something the Markdown of configuration files, and other people wanted something extensible enough to encode any possible data structures.
- Zelphyr 7y agoNot to mention; while pretty wordy, XSLT was incredibly powerful.
- marcosdumay 7y agoIt's verbose, illegible, redundant, and shares mos of the problems YAML has. Not to talk about the attribute/content duality and all the ill-defined parsers it leads to.