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Personally, I hated the namespaces and the attempts at validation. It's also too many characters.
by anothernewdude 5y ago
Personally, I hated the namespaces and the attempts at validation. It's also too many characters.
- silon42 5y agoCan't see the article, but for me the reason why XML is bad (still not as bad as YML) is the lack of support for some control characters. Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] There's no good reason to do this (even null character, although C will not like it).
- zip1234 5y agoI feel like XML just needed a revision to remove a bit of cruft, simplify, add ways to handle certain characters, and a few other things. Instead we have YAML...