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XML was/is great. It was the issue with people abusing the shit out of CDATA and comments to do meta programming inside the XML and making it an absolute night
by virtue3 3y ago
XML was/is great. It was the issue with people abusing the shit out of CDATA and comments to do meta programming inside the XML and making it an absolute nightmare.
I believe it was an additional reason why comments were excluded from the JSON spec. I can't find the exact quote but Crockford's comment about excluding them for parser directive reasoning is pretty bang on considering usage of JSON primarily as an interchange format (and evidence of a good decision based on it's staying power).
https://web.archive.org/web/20190112173904/https://plus.google.com/118095276221607585885/posts/RK8qyGVaGSr https://web.archive.org/web/20190112173904/https://plus.goog...