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> have nothing to do with markup Yes, it's a badly named language. It has nothing to do with markup. As always, intentions don't matter at all, and it's the be
by darby_nine 2y ago
> have nothing to do with markup
Yes, it's a badly named language. It has nothing to do with markup. As always, intentions don't matter at all, and it's the best tool we have for certain types of structures.
- dwaite 2y agoIt is a properly named language. Just a staggering majority of XML use is for a purpose it was not originally designed for. It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations.
- darby_nine 2y ago> It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations. Well, at least hypertext. I've seen the disaster that is MathML.