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> most of us had no idea how to write a parser, let alone deal with the complexities of HTML and JavaScript. Nice. But couldn't you just use pure well-formed X
by qwerty456127 5y ago
> most of us had no idea how to write a parser, let alone deal with the complexities of HTML and JavaScript.
Nice. But couldn't you just use pure well-formed XHTML and make similarly simple pages? Isn't there an XML library for DOS?
- tdeck 5y agoSince none of us knew how to write a parser, dealing with the arbitrarily nested nature of XHTML was pretty intimidating (now that I know how to do it it's not too bad, but in 9th grade I made very little progress). To my knowledge there is no XML parsing library for QBasic; it fell out of favor for "serious work" about 10 years before XML was invented.