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XML Namespaces are one of the worst anti-features I have ever encountered. I have yet to see a legitimate use for them, but they make parsing way more of a pai
by Turskarama 3y ago
XML Namespaces are one of the worst anti-features I have ever encountered. I have yet to see a legitimate use for them, but they make parsing way more of a pain than it needs to be.
Also the use of attributes vs nested tags seems pretty arbitrary and in my experience attributes are hardly used at all.
- jmbwell 3y agoYeah. Look, I’m a booster for XML. But I recently worked on a project to interface with Microsoft Office documents. So many conflicting namespaces. So. Many. Conflicting. Namespaces. Often for the same “kind” of document, at least as far as the user is concerned. So much flexibility. So many ways to paint yourself into a corner. Such a nightmare. Also, the reason we have jobs.